Featuring new essays by international literary scholars, the two-volume Companion to Irish Literature encompasses the full breadth of Ireland’s literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present day.
* Covers an unprecedented historical range of Irish literature
* Arranged in two volumes covering Irish literature from the medieval period to 1900, and its development through the twentieth century to the present day
* Presents a re-visioning of twentieth-century Irish literature and a collection of the most up-to-date scholarship in the field as a whole
* Includes a substantial number of women writers from the eighteenth century to the present day
* Includes essays on leading contemporary authors, including Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Roddy Doyle, and Emma Donoghue
* Introduces readers to the wide range of current approaches to studying Irish literature
Over de auteur
Julia M. Wright is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. She is the author of Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation (2004) and Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2007), and the editor of Irish Literature, 1750-1900: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).
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