Seamus Deane (Indiana University of Notre Dame)

Gebundenes Buch

Small World

Beschreibung

This book is for both general and scholarly readers interested in literary and cultural history. It is a survey of 200 years of Irish writing, its local and global contexts; it offers analytic accounts of works and authors (including Swift, Burke, Joyce, Bowen, Heaney), and their socio-political backgrounds.

Autor

Seamus Deane was a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company, editor of the annual journal Field Day Review, the general editor of the Penguin Joyce, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and the author of several books, including A Short History of Irish Literature; Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature; The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, and Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790. Deane also edited the monumental Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing in three volumes, and wrote four books of poetry and a novel, Reading in the Dark, which has been translated into more than twenty languages and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996. After a lengthy career at University College Dublin, he was Professor of English and Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9781108840866
• ISBN-10: 1108840868
• Artikelnr.: 60550367