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A History of the Irish Novel
Derek Hand
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Description for A History of the Irish Novel
hardcover. The first critical synthesis of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 694.
Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and John McGahern have demonstrated the extraordinary intellectual range, thematic complexity and stylistic innovation of Irish fiction. Derek Hand provides a remarkably detailed picture of the Irish novel's emergence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows the story of the genre is the story of Ireland's troubled relationship to modernisation. The first critical synthesis of the Irish novel from the ... Read more
Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and John McGahern have demonstrated the extraordinary intellectual range, thematic complexity and stylistic innovation of Irish fiction. Derek Hand provides a remarkably detailed picture of the Irish novel's emergence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows the story of the genre is the story of Ireland's troubled relationship to modernisation. The first critical synthesis of the Irish novel from the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press Cambridge
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521855402
SKU
V9780521855402
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About Derek Hand
Derek Hand is a lecturer in English at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra.
Reviews for A History of the Irish Novel
'Accessible, wide-ranging and critically discerning, this is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject that we have.' Irish Times