Irish Novels 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction - Wilson Foster, John
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John Wilson Foster presents a comprehensive survey of more than sixty novelists - over a hundred popular, minor, and mainstream Irish novels - of the 1890-1922 period, largely overlooked until now. In doing so, he exposes the orthodoxy that there was never a real unbroken Irish novel tradition.

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John Wilson Foster presents a comprehensive survey of more than sixty novelists - over a hundred popular, minor, and mainstream Irish novels - of the 1890-1922 period, largely overlooked until now. In doing so, he exposes the orthodoxy that there was never a real unbroken Irish novel tradition.
Autorenporträt
John Wilson Foster is Emeritus Professor at the University of British Columbia. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and read English and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. In 2004-05 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor to the U.K. (University of Ulster); in 2005 he was Armstrong Visiting Professor at St Michael's College, University of Toronto; in 2006 he was Arts Faculty Visiting Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Among his thirteen books are Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction (1974), Fictions of the Irish Literary Revival (1987), Colonial Consequences: Essays in Irish Literature and Culture (1991), The Achievement of Seamus Heaney (1995), Recoveries: Neglected Episodes in Irish Cultural History 1860-1912 (2002), and The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (2006, ed.).