Heroic Revivals from Carlyle to Yeats

Title:

ISBN:

9781137280954

Personal Author:

Higgins, Geraldine. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2012.

Publication Information New:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Physical Description:

X, 226 p. online resource.

Abstract:

This book reassesses the cultural and political dimensions of the Irish Revival's heroic ideal and explores its implications for the construction of Irish modernity. By foregrounding the heroic ideal, it shows how the cultural landscape carved out by these writers is far from homogenous.

Subject Term:

European literature.

Literature -- Philosophy.

Culture -- Study and teaching.

Poetry.

Fiction.

Literature, Modern -- 20th century.

Twentieth-Century Literature.