Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement

Auteur: O'Connell, Helen (Lecturer, Department of English Studies, University of Durham)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
This study of 'improving' fiction produced in Ireland in the 19th century demonstrates how this pamphlet literature shaped the mainstream literary culture. While uncovering previously neglected material, O'Connell also sheds new light on the work of Maria Edgeworth, Mary Leadbeater, William Carleton, Thomas Davis, J. M. Synge, W. B. Yeats, and others.
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This study of 'improving' fiction produced in Ireland in the 19th century demonstrates how this pamphlet literature shaped the mainstream literary culture. While uncovering previously neglected material, O'Connell also sheds new light on the work of Maria Edgeworth, Mary Leadbeater, William Carleton, Thomas Davis, J. M. Synge, W. B. Yeats, and others.
ISBN / EAN 9780199286461
Auteur O'Connell, Helen (Lecturer, Department of English Studies, University of Durham)
Editeur Oxford University Press