Dissolute characters : Irish literary history through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats, and Bowen

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Dissolute characters : Irish literary history through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats, and Bowen

W.J. McCormack

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This study of character in Anglo-Irish literature starts with Balzac and ends with World War II. Topics such as Le Fanu's sensationalism and Bowen's use of ghost story conventions all mark the stages of this account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 On literary history: cashiering the gothic tradition
  • between Balzac and Yeats
  • Swedenborg's ghost. Part 2 Le Fanu and his past: mediating the past - "The House in the Church-Yard"
  • the parochial and the exotic - two tales of 1861-2
  • beginning the English novels
  • characters beheaded with mottoes
  • towards a theory of public opinion
  • "Freezing Brightness"
  • Gottfied Schalcken in history and fiction. Part 3 The great enchantment: "In A Glass Darkly"
  • serialism?
  • Gladstone and ascendancy - or, here we go round the Upas tree
  • Yeats and gothic politics. Part 4 Elizabeth Bowen and "The Heat of the Day"
  • is the novel properly entitled?
  • indefinite articles
  • "The Neutral Island in the Heart of Man". Epilogue: the disinherited of literary history.

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