Irish Writers and Politics

21.6 x 13.8 cm.     viii, 350 pp.   1990   Irish Literary Studies series (ISSN 0140-895X) volume 36   IASAIL-Japan Series (ISSN 0267-6079) volume 3

This collection of essays looks at a variety of responses by writers to the problems of their motherland. Includes essays on Swift, Burke, Ferguson, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Joyce, Shaw, O'Casey, Parker and Egan, as well as Northern Irish poets and playwrights. Essayists include Vivian Mercier, A. Norman Jeffares, Lorna Reynolds, Maurice Harmon, John S. Kelly, Declan Kiberd, Christopher Murray, Brian Arkins, and Augustine Martin.

CONTENTS<br

INTRODUCTION. Masaru Sekine<br

ENGLISH READERS: THREE HISTORICAL 'MOMENTS'. Vivian Mercier<br

SWIFT: ANATOMY OF AN ANTI-COLONIALIST. A. Norman Jeffares<br

EDMUND BURKE: A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS. Lorna Reynolds<br

THE ENIGMA OF SAMUEL FERGUSON. Maurice Harmon<br

W. B. YEATS: POLITICS AND HISTORY. Donna Gerstenberger<br

ASCENDANCY NATIONALISM, FEMINIST NATIONALISM AND STAGECRAFT IN LADY GREGORY'S REVISION OF KINCORA. Maureen S.G. Hawkins<br

THE FIFTH BELL: RACE AND CLASS IN YEATS'S POLITICAL THOUGHT. John S. Kelly<br

KINESIS STASIS, REVOLUTION IN YEATSEAN DRAMA. Augustine Martin<br

JAMES JOYCE AND POLITICS. Heather Cook Callow<br

SAINT JOAN: FABIAN FEMINIST AND PROTESTANT MYSTIC. Declan Kiberd<br

THE 'MIGHT OF DESIGN' IN THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS. Christopher Murray<br

THE WILL TO FREEDOM: POLITICS AND PLAY IN THE THEATRE OF STEWART PARKER. Elmer Andrews<br

TOO LITTLE PEACE: THE POLITICAL POETRY OF DESMOND EGAN. Brian Arkins<br

WHO WE ARE: PROTESTANTS AND POETRY IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND. David Burleigh<br

THEATRE WITH ITS SLEEVES ROLLED UP. Emelie Fitzgibbon<br

Notes<br

Notes on Contributors<br

Index