The unappeasable host : studies in Irish identities / Robert Tracy

Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 1998. 1st edition. Softcover. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 280 p: 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-270) and index. Contents: The cracked lookingglass of a servant: inventing the colonial novel -- Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan : legality versus legitimacy -- Fiery shorthand: the Banim brothers at work -- Self-fashioning as pseudo-history: Roger O'Connor's Chronicles of Eri -- Sheridan Le Fanu and the unmentionable -- That rooted man: Yeats, John Sherman, and Dhoya -- Long division in the long schoolroom: Yeats 'Among school children' -- Intelligible on the Blasket Islands: Yeats's King Oedipus, 1926 -- Merging into art : The death of Cuchulain and the death of Yeats -- Living in the margin: Synge in Aran -- Words of mouth: Joyce and the oral tradition -- Mr. Joker and Dr. Hyde: Joyce's politic polyglot polygraphs -- In the heart of the Theban Necropolis: mummyscripts and mummiescrypts in Finnegans Wake -- The burning roof and tower: identity in Elizabeth Bowen's The last September -- Elizabeth Bowen: rebuilding the big house -- A ghost of style: exorcising the Anglo-Irish past. Subjects: English literature Irish authors History and criticism. National characteristics, Irish, in literature. Literature and history Ireland History. Protestants Ireland Intellectual life. British Ireland Intellectual life. Group identity Ireland. Authors, Irish. Genre: Bibliography.