The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel

Front Cover
Cambridge University Press, Dec 14, 2006 - Literary Criticism
The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, and authors. It provides critiques of individual works, accounts of important novelists, and histories of sub-genres and allied narrative forms, establishing significant social and political contexts for dozens of novels. The varied perspectives and emphases by more than a dozen critics and literary historians ensure that the Irish novel receives due tribute for its colour, variety and linguistic verve. Each chapter features recommended further reading. This is the perfect overview for students of the Irish novel from the romances of the seventeenth century to the present day.
 

Contents

Section 1
39
Section 2
60
Section 3
78
Section 4
97
Section 5
113
Section 6
133
Section 7
153
Section 8
171
Section 9
189
Section 10
205
Section 11
223
Section 12
238

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 27 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

About the author (2006)

John Wilson Foster is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Bibliographic information