Author: Vance, Norman
Title: Irish Literature: A Social History. Tradition, Identity and Difference
Description: Oxford, Basil Blackwell, (1990). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xv, 315 pp. Textual maps & illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Tradition, Ireland, Literature; 17th-Century Beginnings: Archbishop Ussher and the Earl of Roscommon; The 18th-Century & Beyond: William Drennan and Thomas Moore; The Literatures of Victorian Ireland: William Carleton & Thomas D'Arcy McGee; Revival Renewed;: St. John Ervine and James Joyce; Contemporary Ireland & the Poetics of Partition: John Hewitt and Seamus Heaney.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Ireland, English Literature, Irish, Social History, , , ,