Words alone: W. B. Yeats and Irish literary traditions in the nineteenth century

Yeats is usually seen as a great modernist innovator. This book goes against the grain to explore the Irish literary traditions that preceded and influenced him--romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemicof the Young Ireland movement, the occult novels of Sheridan LeFanu, and William Carleton's 'peasant fictions'. INDICE: Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: National Tales and National Futures in Ireland and Scotland after the Union; 2: The First Romantics: Young Irelands between Catholic Emancipation and the Famine; 3: Lostin the Big House: Anglo-Irishry and the Uses of the Supernatural; 4: Oisin Comes Home: Yeats as Inheritor

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959216-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 226
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés