Against the despotism of fact modernism, capitalism, and the Irish Celt

"Emerging at a moment of escalating colonial conflict between England and Ireland, the figure of the Irish Celt enjoyed a long and varied career in both English and Irish literature from the late Victorian era to World War II. While this figure assumes many forms and functions, T. J. Boynton ar...

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1. Verfasser: Boynton, T. J. 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany SUNY Press [2021]
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Celticism, capitalism, and transnational modernism
  • British Celticism. Matthew Arnold, the ontology of English capitalism, and the rebirth of Celtic tragedy
  • The uses of Irishness, I : British imperial-romantic Celticism
  • The uses of Irishness, II : British modernist Celticism
  • Irish Celticism. "A nation of imitators" : anti-capitalisms of the Irish Revival, 1885-1910
  • "In front of the cracked looking glass" : revivalist modernism, the Irish female consumer, and the colonial spectacle
  • The bathetic muse : Irish late modernism
  • Conclusion: Post-Celticism