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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an excellent study. Here is a scholar who dearly loves literature for its own sake. He writes about the authors under scrutiny in a profoundly illuminating and endearing matter."--The Irish Times "... a densely written, scholarly account of the subject, bristling with argument and painstakingly researched... Some may not agree with a few of the premisses from which conclusions are reached... But learned professors are at their best when they're flying a kite or two: in this perceptive book many are flown with refreshing panache."--The Spectator
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIPrologue: "Irish Enough"3IIMaria Edgeworth (1768-1849): Origination and a Checklist12IIIWilliam Carleton (1794-1869): The Native Informer43IVDeclensions of Anglo-Irish History: The Act of Union to the Encumbered Estates Acts of 1848-49 ... With a Glance at a Singular Heroine74VCharles Lever (1806-72): The Anglo-Irish Writer as Diplomatic Absentee. With a Glance at John Banim84VIThe Politics of Anglo-Irish Gothic: Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and the Return of the Repressed109VIIHistory Again: The Era of Parnell - Myths and Realities136VIIISpinsters Ball: George Moore and the Land Agitation144IX"The Strain of the Double Loyalty": Edith Somerville and Martin Ross162XW. B. Yeats and the End of Anglo-Irish Literature198XIAfter the End: The Anglo-Irish Postmortem224Afterword253Notes257Works Cited269Index279
