A pocket history of Irish literature
By: A. Norman Jeffares
Publisher: OB̓rien Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780862785024
Subjects: English literature; Geschichte; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Literatur; Irish authors
Table of contents: title: The eighteenth century: rationalism, anti-colonialism, philosophy and comedy; title: Nineteenth century fiction before the famine; title: Romantic poetry, nationalism and the gothic; title: Social comedy with a message: Wilde and Shaw; title: Seriousness and humour in the novel; title: The literary revival; title: The Abbey in the 1920s and 1930s; title: Joyce and fiction: 1920s to 1940s; title: Poetry after Yeats; title: Samuel Beckett and modern drama; title: Novelists from the 1950s on; title: Contemporary poetry.