Literature and nationalism
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Literature and nationalism
Liverpool University Press, 1991
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  Hiroshima
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  Saga
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  Kumamoto
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Note
"A Note on Philip Edwards": p. 271-274
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of essays traces the representation of nationalism in a number of literary texts, ranging from the poems of Thomas Wyatt, written at the court of Henry VIII, to the plays of Tom Murphy, written in Ireland in the 1980s. The essays focus mainly on the periods of Shakespeare and of Yeats and on the troubled interaction between English and Irish nationalism, but Cowper, Coleridge, Byron and Strindberg are also featured. The writers discussed, whether they are ostensibly celebrating the innocent early days of English imperialism, reacting to the American War of Independence or the French Revolution and the rise and fall of Napoleon, or doggedly rewriting the story of the "National Question" in Ireland, include those who are attracted by the glamour of nationalism and eager to participate in its rhetoric as well as those who are sceptical, cynical, even hostile.
Table of Contents
- Sidney's "poor" painter - nationalism and social class, Edward Berry
- war, civil war and "Bruderkrieg" in Shakespeare, Jonas Barish
- Shakespeare's Welshman, Joan Rees
- antique Romans and modern Danes in "Julius Caesar" and "Hamlet", George Walton Williams
- Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and the question of nationalism, Arthur F. Kinney
- person and office - the case of Imogen, Princess of Britain, Ann Thompson
- religious nationalism, Inga-Stina Ewbank
- George Herbert's "The British Church" and the idea of a national church, Frank Brownlow
- William Cowper and the condition of England, Vincent Newey
- Coleridge, Napoleon and nationalism, Bernard Beatty
- Yeats and anticlerical nationalism, Hazard Adams
- fighting the waves - Yeats, Shakespeare and Ireland, Ruth Nevo
- "Defending Ireland's Soul" - Protestant writers and Irish national independence, Edna Longley
- Macneice's Ireland. MacNeice's islands, Terence Brown
- Murphy's Ireland - "Bailegangaire", Nicholas Grene
- dissident poets, Kenneth Muir
- another old Bolshevik, Donald Davie.
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