The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities by Robert Tracy - 1998-10-30

University College Dublin Press, 1998. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9781900621076

Dublin:: University College,, (1998). First edition -. Very good in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A collection of 16 essays, "each and all marked by a vast knowledge of Ireland and its writers, by penetrating insights, and perceptive analysis." They reveal "how Anglo-Irish writers founded modern Irish literature in English, identifying themselves with their native country and its people. Yet they often felt themselves surrounded and watched by an 'Unappeasable Host,' a population that resented them." Among the topics and authors covered are the colonial novel and works by Maria Edgeworth, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats, Synge, James Joyce, and Elizabeth Bowen among others. Bibliography, index, 380 pp.

Univ College Dublin Pr, 1998. Paperback. New. 280 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches.

Univ College Dublin Pr, 1998-10-30. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New. Irish writers who were considered Irish by the English, and English by the Irish are discussed here - including Maria Edgeworth, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Sheridan le Fanu, Elizabeth Bowen and James Joyce.

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… Read More

Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by the author. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 280p ; 24cm. Subjects: National characteristics, Irish -- In literature. Group identity -- Ireland.