Boynton Against the Despotism of Fact

Modernism, Capitalism, and the Irish Celt
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8182-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 285 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boynton, T. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Celticism, Capitalism, and Transnational Modernism

Part I: British Celticism

1. Matthew Arnold, the Ontology of English Capitalism, and the Rebirth of Celtic Tragedy

2. The Uses of Irishness, I: British Imperial-Romantic Celticism

3. The Uses of Irishness, II: British Modernist Celticism

Part II: Irish Celticism

4. "A Nation of Imitators": Anticapitalisms of the Irish Revival, 1885–1910

5. "In Front of the Cracked Looking-Glass": Revivalist Modernism, the Irish Female Consumer, and the Colonial Spectacle

6. The Bathetic Muse: Irish Late Modernism

Conclusion: Post-Celticism

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

T. J. Boynton is Assistant Professor of English at Wichita State University.