Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A New England Called Ireland? Ireland—England’s Unconscious? [Interchapter] 2. Oscar Wilde—The Artist as Irishman 3. John Bull’s Other Islander—Bernard Shaw Anglo-Ireland: The Woman’s Part [Interchapter] 4. Tragedies of Manners—Somerville and Ross 5. Lady Gregory and the Empire Boys Yeats: Looking into the Lion’s Face [Interchapter] 6. Childhood and Ireland 7. The National Longing for Form Return to the Source? [Interchapter] 8. Deanglicization 9. Nationality or Cosmopolitanism? 10. J.M. Synge—Remembering the Future Revolution and War [Interchapter] 11. Uprising 12. The Plebeians Revise the Uprising 13. The Great War and Irish Memory Worlds Apart? 14. Ireland and the End of Empire Inventing Irelands [Interchapter] 15. Writing Ireland, Reading England 16. Inventing Irelands 17. Revolt Into Style—Yeatsian Poetics 18. The Last Aisling—A Vision 19. James Joyce and Mythic Realism Sexual Politics [Interchapter] 20. Elizabeth Bowen—The Dandy in Revolt 21. Fathers and Sons 22. Mothers and Daughters Protestant Revivals [Interchapter] 23. Protholics and Cathestants 24. Saint Joan—Fabian Feminist, Protestant Mystic 25. The Winding Stair 26. Religious Writing: Beckett and Others Underdevelopment [Interchapter] 27. The Periphery and the Centre 28. Flann O’Brien, Myles, and The Poor Mouth 29. The Empire Writes Back—Brendan Behan 30. Beckett’s Texts of Laughter and Forgetting 31. Post-Colonial Ireland—“A Quaking Sod” Recovery and Renewal [Interchapter] 32. Under Pressure—The Writer and Society 1960–90 33. Friel Translating 34. Translating Tradition Reinventing Ireland 35. Imagining Irish Studies Notes Index