Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE "[F]ull of personified averages": Progress in the Victorian and Edwardian Eras; CHAPTER TWO Literatures of Progress; CHAPTER THREE Progress as Material Gain: The Bourgeois Peasant as Invented Tradition in The Countess Cathleen, Cathleen ni Houlihan, and The Land of Heart's Desire; CHAPTER FOUR Recovering the Feminized Other: Psychological Androgyny in The King's Threshold, On Baile's Strand, and Deirdre
CHAPTER FIVE "[N]ice little playwrights, making pretty little plays": Yeats, Irish Identity, and the Critical ResponseNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX