W.B. Yeats in context
W.B. Yeats is a writer who requires, and at the same time tests the limits of, contextual study. More than perhaps any other Irish writer, he produced his own context as much as it produced him. His cultural and political activities, combined with his prolific literary output, made an impact that ca...
| Other Authors: | Holdeman, David., Levitas, Ben (Lecturer in drama) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Physical Description: |
xix, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / David Holdeman and Ben Levitas
- Part I. Times
- 1. Church, state, childhood, and youth, 1865-1885 / W.J. McCormack
- 2. The fin de siècle, 1885-1897 / Stephen Regan
- 3. Anger management, 1898-1913 / Adrian Frazier
- 4. War, 1914-1923 / Ben Levitas
- 5. The Irish Free State and the European crisis, 1924-1939 / Paul Scott Stanfield
- Part II. Places
- 6. Sligo / David Fitzpatrick
- 7. London / Timothy Webb
- 8. Dublin / Anthony Roche
- 9. Galway: Coole and Ballylee / Jonathan Allison
- Part III. Personalities
- 10. John Butler Yeats / Douglas Archibald
- 11. Maud Gonne / Karen Steele
- 12. Lady Gregory / Judith Hill
- 13. J.M. Synge / Nicholas Grene
- 14. Ezra Pound / Catherine E. Paul
- 15. George Yeats / Margaret Mills Harper
- Part IV. Themes
- 16. Class and eugenics / Donald J. Childs
- 17. Nationalism and postcolonialism / David Lloyd
- 18. Gender / Vicki Mahaffey
- 19. Aesthetics / James Pethica
- 20. Fascism / R.F. Foster
- Part V. Philosophies
- 21. The Church in Ireland: Protestant and Catholic / Nicholas Allen
- 22. Occultism / Timothy Materer
- 23. Folklore / Sinéad Garrigan Mattar
- 24. Indian thought / Shalini Sikka
- 25. Nietzsche / Michael Valdez Moses
- 26. Classical philosophy / Matthew Gibson
- 27. Landscape, family, eighteenth-century Ireland / Jefferson Holdridge
- Part VI. Arts
- 28. Nineteenth-century Irish poetry / Phillip L. Marcus
- 29. The English Romantic symbolists / Matthew Campbell
- 30. Modern poetry / James Longenbach
- 31. Theatrical culture / Richard Cave
- 32. The visual arts / Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux
- 33. Modern fiction / Frank Shovlin
- Part VII. Reception
- 34. Manuscripts and revisions / David Holdeman
- 35. Publishers and the material text / George Bornstein
- 36. Critical debate, 1939-1970 / Edna Longley
- 37. Critical debate, 1970-2006 / Rob Doggett
- 38. Popular culture / Geraldine Higgins.