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Edited by Jacqueline Genet 0-86140-385-1 246pp. 1996 £33.00
The aim of the present collection is to draw a picture of rural Ireland through Irish literature, from the 18th century, with William Chaigneau, Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, through the numerous rich productions of the nineteenth century, up to the present time with Patrick Kavanagh and Flann O'Brien. Contents The Background Catherine Maignant: "Rural Ireland in the 19th Century and the advent of the modern world" Paul Brennan: "Ireland's Rural Population" Rural Ireland in Literature Bernard Escarbelt: "William Chaigneau's Jack Connor: a literary image of the Irish peasant" Claude Fierobe: "The peasantry in the Irish novels of Maria Edgeworth" Jean Brihault: "Lady Morgan: Deep Furrows" Colin Meir: "Status and style in Carleton's Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry" Godeline Carpentier: "The peasantry in Kickham's tales and novels: an epitome mof the writer's realism, idealism and ideology" Caroline MacDonogh: "Augusta Gregory: A Portrait of a Lady" Declan Kiberd: " Decolonizing the mind: Douglas Hyde and Irish Ireland" Jacqueline Genet: "Yeats and the myth of rural Ireland" Ren‚ Agostini: "J.M.Synge's `celestial peasants'" Martin Craghan: "`...the great and good... the worthless and insignificant'. A case study of Tomas O'Crohan: The Island Man" Augustine Martin: "The Past and the peasant in the stories of Seumas O'Kelly" Colbert Kearney: "Daniel Corkery: a priest and his people" Maurice Harmon: "Kavanagh's Old Peasant" Danielle Jacquin: "`Cerveaux lucides is good begob': Flann O'Brien and the world of peasants" Notes on contributors Index 20/01/2008 |
