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William Carleton the Novelist
David Krause
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Description for William Carleton the Novelist
Hardback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
William Carleton, Ireland's great but overlooked nineteenth-century writer, has for the past 150 years been denigrated as a failed novelist, but is here redeemed by David Krause's in-depth study of all his significant novels. Carleton employed techniques similar to the multi-voiced carnival (where oral folk tradition combines sacred with profane and the great with the insignificant) and mock-heroic version of pastoral (where comic characters make profound remarks and whose actions have unanticipated great effects). Through his novels, Carleton illuminated the exploitation of Irish lands by indifferent British authorities and rackrenting Anglo-Irish landlords and subsequent famine and holocaust. Krause's recognition of ... Read more
William Carleton, Ireland's great but overlooked nineteenth-century writer, has for the past 150 years been denigrated as a failed novelist, but is here redeemed by David Krause's in-depth study of all his significant novels. Carleton employed techniques similar to the multi-voiced carnival (where oral folk tradition combines sacred with profane and the great with the insignificant) and mock-heroic version of pastoral (where comic characters make profound remarks and whose actions have unanticipated great effects). Through his novels, Carleton illuminated the exploitation of Irish lands by indifferent British authorities and rackrenting Anglo-Irish landlords and subsequent famine and holocaust. Krause's recognition of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761816560
SKU
V9780761816560
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About David Krause
David Krause is Professor of English Emeritus, Adjunct Professor at Brown University and author of Sean O'Casey, The Man and His Work.
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