Heathcliff and the Great Hunger : studies in Irish culture / Terry Eagleton
by Eagleton, Terry (1943-)
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London ; New York : Verso , 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 355 pages; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: When James Joyce called the Irish 'the most belated race in Europe', he stated a complex truth about the history of his people and the nation they had been creating since the eighteenth century. The Irish would, in Joyce's lifetime, write many of the masterpieces of modernism in English, while at the same time forging a nation-state in many ways still backward-looking and traditionalist. This paradox of Irish history is one of the many topics addressed in Terry Eagleton's latest book. Heathcliff and the Great Hunger reads Irish culture from Swift and Burke to Yeats and Joyce in the light of the torturous, often tragic socio-political history that conditioned it. Eagleton opens with a brilliant conjugation of Wuthering Heights in the context of the famine in Ireland, highlighting the Irish connections of the Bronte family. He follows with a powerful analysis of the Protestant Ascendancy's failure to achieve hegemony in Ireland; a dissection of the paradoxes of the Act of Union; a detailed account, spanning fiction from Swift and Maria Edgeworth, through Lady Morgan, Mauturin, Le Fanu and Stoker, to George Moore, of why the realist novel never flourished in Ireland; and a pointed consideration of the two great Irish exiles, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. The book also looks at the radical culture of Ulster and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century Ireland. -- Publisher description. Contents: Heathcliff and the Great Hunger -- Ascendancy and Hegemony -- Homage to Francis Hutcheson -- Changing the Question -- Form and Ideology in the Anglo-Irish Novel -- Culture and Politics from Davis to Joyce -- The Archaic Avant-Garde -- Oscar and George. Subjects: Bronte, Emily 1818-1848. Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights (Bront�, Emily). Irish literature History and criticism. Famines Ireland History 19th century. Heathcliff (Fictitious character). English literature Irish authors. English literature Irish authors History and criticism. Genre: Bibliography. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
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Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include Ideology ; The Function of Criticism ; Heathcliff and the Great Hunger ; Against the Grain ; Walter Benjamin ; and Criticism and Ideology , all from Verso.
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- Title
- Heathcliff and the Great Hunger : studies in Irish culture / Terry Eagleton
- Author
- Eagleton, Terry (1943-)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 1859849326
- ISBN 13
- 9781859849323
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Verso
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1995
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