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Ancestral Voices: The Big-House in Anglo-Irish Literature

Otto Rauchbauer
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Description:The Big House motif has long been prominent in Anglo-Irish literature, but a comprehensive study of the subject is still awaited. Ancestral Voices brings together new essays on relevant work by Maria Edgeworth, Charles Lever, George Moore, Somerville and Ross, W.B. Yeats, Lennox Robinson, Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane, Aidan Higgins, Jennifer Johnston, John Banville and William Trevor.The book opens with two general surveys, 'The Big House and Irish History' and 'Continuity and Change in Irish Fiction', concluding with a consideration of the social and material culture on the Big House as it exists today.The thirteen contributors are drawn from Ireland, Germany, Austria and the United States. The editor, Otto Rauchbauer, teaches at the University of Vienna.Contents:An Introductory sketch - Otto RauchbauerContinuity and Change in Irish Fiction: The Case of the Big-House Novel - Klaus LubbersSetting and Ideology: with Reference to the Fiction of Maria Edgeworth - W.J. Mc CormackReflecting Absent Interiors: The Big-House Novels of Charles Lever - Christopher MorashThe Country House in George Moore's A Drama in Muslin - Paul GoetschSomerville & Ross: The Real Charlotte and The Big House of Inver - Rüdiger ImhofLennox Robinson, The Big House, Killycreggs in twilight and 'the Vestigia of Generations' - Christopher MurrayThe Big House, Yeats, and the Irish Context - Antony ColemanThe Last September - Elizabeth Bowen's Paradise Lost - Lorna ReynoldsThe Big House in the Irish Short Story after 1918: A Critical Survey - Otto RauchbauerReinventing a Form: The Big House in Aidan Higgins' Langrishe, Go Down - Vera Kreilkamp 'This White Elephant of a Place': Jennifer Johnston's Uses of the Big House - Klaus Lübbers 'This Lawless House' - John BanvillePost-Modernist Treatment of the Big-House Motif in Birchwood and The Newton Letter -Susan BurgstallerSaints of the Ascendancy: William Trevor's Big House Novels - Max Deen LarsenThe Big House: A Genealogist's Perspective and a Personal Point of View - Henry McDowellWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ancestral Voices: The Big-House in Anglo-Irish Literature. To get started finding Ancestral Voices: The Big-House in Anglo-Irish Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
327
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
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Release
1996
ISBN
0946640866

Ancestral Voices: The Big-House in Anglo-Irish Literature

Otto Rauchbauer
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: The Big House motif has long been prominent in Anglo-Irish literature, but a comprehensive study of the subject is still awaited. Ancestral Voices brings together new essays on relevant work by Maria Edgeworth, Charles Lever, George Moore, Somerville and Ross, W.B. Yeats, Lennox Robinson, Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane, Aidan Higgins, Jennifer Johnston, John Banville and William Trevor.The book opens with two general surveys, 'The Big House and Irish History' and 'Continuity and Change in Irish Fiction', concluding with a consideration of the social and material culture on the Big House as it exists today.The thirteen contributors are drawn from Ireland, Germany, Austria and the United States. The editor, Otto Rauchbauer, teaches at the University of Vienna.Contents:An Introductory sketch - Otto RauchbauerContinuity and Change in Irish Fiction: The Case of the Big-House Novel - Klaus LubbersSetting and Ideology: with Reference to the Fiction of Maria Edgeworth - W.J. Mc CormackReflecting Absent Interiors: The Big-House Novels of Charles Lever - Christopher MorashThe Country House in George Moore's A Drama in Muslin - Paul GoetschSomerville & Ross: The Real Charlotte and The Big House of Inver - Rüdiger ImhofLennox Robinson, The Big House, Killycreggs in twilight and 'the Vestigia of Generations' - Christopher MurrayThe Big House, Yeats, and the Irish Context - Antony ColemanThe Last September - Elizabeth Bowen's Paradise Lost - Lorna ReynoldsThe Big House in the Irish Short Story after 1918: A Critical Survey - Otto RauchbauerReinventing a Form: The Big House in Aidan Higgins' Langrishe, Go Down - Vera Kreilkamp 'This White Elephant of a Place': Jennifer Johnston's Uses of the Big House - Klaus Lübbers 'This Lawless House' - John BanvillePost-Modernist Treatment of the Big-House Motif in Birchwood and The Newton Letter -Susan BurgstallerSaints of the Ascendancy: William Trevor's Big House Novels - Max Deen LarsenThe Big House: A Genealogist's Perspective and a Personal Point of View - Henry McDowellWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ancestral Voices: The Big-House in Anglo-Irish Literature. To get started finding Ancestral Voices: The Big-House in Anglo-Irish Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
327
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
—
Release
1996
ISBN
0946640866

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