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Literary Representations of the Irish Country House
M. Kelsall
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Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133. .
This innovative new study examines the significance given to the country house in Ireland under the Union and how this is represented in the works of Edgeworth, Lever, Trollope, Martin and Somerville, Bowen and Lady Gregory. The Irish country house is set in a classical and European context as the centre for 'the good life' and the pinnacle of 'civilisation'. In Ireland, that inherited tradition was challenged by an alternative culture nominated as 'savage'. This book explores how the Irish country house was the focus of conflict between and symbiosis of 'civilisation' and 'savagery'.
This innovative new study examines the significance given to the country house in Ireland under the Union and how this is represented in the works of Edgeworth, Lever, Trollope, Martin and Somerville, Bowen and Lady Gregory. The Irish country house is set in a classical and European context as the centre for 'the good life' and the pinnacle of 'civilisation'. In Ireland, that inherited tradition was challenged by an alternative culture nominated as 'savage'. This book explores how the Irish country house was the focus of conflict between and symbiosis of 'civilisation' and 'savagery'.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349418374
SKU
V9781349418374
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99-15
About M. Kelsall
MALCOLM KELSALL is Professor of English at Cardiff University. He is the author of Christopher Marlowe (1981), Byron's Politics (1987, awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize in 1991), The Great Good Place: The Country House and English Literature (1992), and Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism: Folk, Land, Culture and the Romantic Nation (1999).
Reviews for Literary Representations of the Irish Country House
'Prof Kelsall's book is an authoritative work of considerable research. It is not aimed at a wide audience, although those with a serious interest in the culture of the country house will find much to illuminate and guide their reading.' - Country Life