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Parnell and his Times
Joep Leerssen
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Marked by names such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Pearse, the decade 1910–1920 was a period of revolutionary change in Ireland, in literature, politics and public opinion. What fed the creative and reformist urge besides the circumstances of the moment and a vision of the future? The leading experts in Irish history, literature and culture assembled in this volume argue that the shadow of the past was also a driving factor: the traumatic, undigested memory of the defeat and death of the charismatic national leader Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891). The authors reassess Parnell's impact on the Ireland ... Read more
Marked by names such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Pearse, the decade 1910–1920 was a period of revolutionary change in Ireland, in literature, politics and public opinion. What fed the creative and reformist urge besides the circumstances of the moment and a vision of the future? The leading experts in Irish history, literature and culture assembled in this volume argue that the shadow of the past was also a driving factor: the traumatic, undigested memory of the defeat and death of the charismatic national leader Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891). The authors reassess Parnell's impact on the Ireland ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
338
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781108495264
SKU
9781108495264
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About Joep Leerssen
Joep Leerssen is Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His books Mere Irish and Fíor-Ghael (1986) and Remembrance and Imagination (1996) helped establish the specialism of Irish Studies. His comparative work on national (self-)stereotyping and cultural nationalism earned him the Spinoza Prize in 2008. He is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe ... Read more
Reviews for Parnell and his Times
'… most of the contributions are solid, insightful, and sometimes brilliant … it is a volume well worth reading.' John McCourt, James Joyce Quarterly