Blighted Beginnings
Jonathon Bolton
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Description for Blighted Beginnings
Hardback. Blighted Beginnings: Coming of Age in Independent Ireland offers a much needed examination of the manner in which narratives of emerging selfhood were used persistently by authors in order to critique and reform problems that have plagued post-independence Ireland. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 535.
"Blighted Beginnings": Coming of Age in Independent Ireland offers a much needed examination of the manner in which narratives of emerging selfhood were used persistently by authors in order to critique and reform problems that have plagued post-independence Ireland. The study begins by examining the struggles peculiar to the generation that either came of age during the Irish revolutionary period or immediately after independences whose individual identity-formation coincides with the birth of the Free State. It then looks at how the freedoms of Anglo-Irish children were circumscribed by the traditions of their class, the inheritance of property, and by ... Read more
"Blighted Beginnings": Coming of Age in Independent Ireland offers a much needed examination of the manner in which narratives of emerging selfhood were used persistently by authors in order to critique and reform problems that have plagued post-independence Ireland. The study begins by examining the struggles peculiar to the generation that either came of age during the Irish revolutionary period or immediately after independences whose individual identity-formation coincides with the birth of the Free State. It then looks at how the freedoms of Anglo-Irish children were circumscribed by the traditions of their class, the inheritance of property, and by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483536
SKU
V9781611483536
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99-15
About Jonathon Bolton
Jonathan Bolton is associate professor of English at Auburn University, where he teaches courses in twentieth-century British and Irish literature.
Reviews for Blighted Beginnings
Bolton (Auburn Univ.) offers an exhaustive examination of 'coming of age' novels in 20th-century Ireland....Summing up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
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