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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
John Wilson Foster presents a comprehensive survey of more than sixty novelists - over a hundred popular, minor, and mainstream Irish novels - of the 1890-1922 period, largely overlooked until now. In doing so, he exposes the orthodoxy that there was...
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John Wilson Foster presents a comprehensive survey of more than sixty novelists - over a hundred popular, minor, and mainstream Irish novels - of the 1890-1922 period, largely overlooked until now. In doing so, he exposes the orthodoxy that there was never a real unbroken Irish novel tradition. Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Shock of the Old -- 1. 'A Deplorable Facility': Popular Fiction -- 2. 'When the Tide Turns': After the Victorians -- 3. A New Theology: Protestantism and the Irish Novel -- 4. 'Their Patience Folly?': Catholicism and Irish Fiction -- 5. Bad Blood: Sectarianism in the Irish Novel -- 6. Studies in Green: The Condition of Ireland I -- 7. 'Society-Spelt Big': The Condition of Ireland II -- 8. Tiercel and Lure: Love and Marriage -- 9. Métier de Femme: New Woman Fiction -- 10. Fin de Siècle: New Women, Art, and Decadence -- 11. Science and the Supernatural: Among Genres I -- 12. Dracula and Detection: Among Genres II -- 13. 'Years of the Shadow': Writings of the Great War -- 14. 'This Sharp, Bitter Cleavage': War and the Rising -- Postscript. 'The Ladies' Road': Women Novelists 1922-1940 -- Appendix: A Note on Joyce and Popular Fiction -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
