Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism (Irish Studies)
Julia Wright
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Hardcover. In this work, Wright considers this fraught relationship between land and national identity in Irish literature. Num Pages: 363 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
Ireland is a country which has come to be defined in part by an ideology which conflates nationalism with the land. From the Irish Revival’s celebration of the Irish peasant farmer as the ideal Irishman to the fierce history of land claim battles between the Irish and their colonisers, notions of the land have become particularly bound up with conceptions of what Ireland is and what it is to be Irish. In this book, Wright considers this fraught relationship between land and national identity in Irish literature. In doing so, she presents a new vision of the Irish national landscape ... Read more
Ireland is a country which has come to be defined in part by an ideology which conflates nationalism with the land. From the Irish Revival’s celebration of the Irish peasant farmer as the ideal Irishman to the fierce history of land claim battles between the Irish and their colonisers, notions of the land have become particularly bound up with conceptions of what Ireland is and what it is to be Irish. In this book, Wright considers this fraught relationship between land and national identity in Irish literature. In doing so, she presents a new vision of the Irish national landscape ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815633532
SKU
V9780815633532
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About Julia Wright
Julia M. Wright is professor of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She is the author of Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation.
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