Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 to 1939
| Author | : W. J. McCormack |
| Publisher | : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015011914325 |
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| Rating | : 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Download or read book Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 to 1939 written by W. J. McCormack and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland's footing within the United Kingdom in the period between Edmund Burke's last years and the generation of Yeats and Joyce, was unique and anomalous: in social terms this was evident in the prestige of the Protestant Ascendancy; and in literary terms in the values accorded to the notion of tradition. This study uncovers the bourgeois origins of Ascendancy ideology in the alarm of the 1790s, and traces its cultural significance by means of a series ofdetailed critiques of central texts and concepts.
