Irish Writing

Exile and Subversion

• Author(s): Paul Hyland,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 256
• ISBN_10: 1349217557
  ISBN_13: 9781349217557
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century , Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Literary Criticism / Renaissance ,

Description:... This is a collection of original essays by international scholars which focuses on Irish writing in English from the eighteenth century to the present. The essays explore the recurrent motif of exile and the subversive potential of Irish writing in political, cultural and literary terms. Case-studies of major writers such as Swift, Joyce, and Heaney are set alongside discussions of relatively unexplored writing such as radical pamphleteering in the age of the French Revolution and the contribution of women writers to Nationalistic journalism.