This innovative new study examines the significance given to the country house in Ireland under the Union and how this is represented in the works of Edgeworth, Lever, Trollope, Martin and Somerville, Bowen and Lady Gregory. The Irish country house is set in a classical and European context as the centre for 'the good life' and the pinnacle of 'civilisation'. In Ireland, that inherited tradition was challenged by an alternative culture nominated as 'savage'. This book explores how the Irish country house was the focus of conflict between and symbiosis of 'civilisation' and 'savagery'.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: M. Kelsall
EAN: 9781349418374
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 259 g
HEIGHT: 203 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2003-01-01
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century
WIDTH: 133 cm
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Book Themes:
Europe, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
'Prof Kelsall's book is an authoritative work of considerable research. It is not aimed at a wide audience, although those with a serious interest in the culture of the country house will find much to illuminate and guide their reading.' - Country Life
MALCOLM KELSALL is Professor of English at Cardiff University. He is the author of Christopher Marlowe (1981), Byron's Politics (1987, awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize in 1991), The Great Good Place: The Country House and English Literature (1992), and Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism: Folk, Land, Culture and the Romantic Nation (1999).
