- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. A New England Called Ireland?
- Ireland—England’s Unconscious?
- [Interchapter]
- 2. Oscar Wilde—The Artist as Irishman
- 3. John Bull’s Other Islander—Bernard Shaw
- Anglo-Ireland: The Woman’s Part
- [Interchapter]
- 4. Tragedies of Manners—Somerville and Ross
- 5. Lady Gregory and the Empire Boys
- Yeats: Looking into the Lion’s Face
- [Interchapter]
- 6. Childhood and Ireland
- 7. The National Longing for Form
- Return to the Source?
- [Interchapter]
- 8. Deanglicization
- 9. Nationality or Cosmopolitanism?
- 10. J.M. Synge—Remembering the Future
- Revolution and War
- [Interchapter]
- 11. Uprising
- 12. The Plebeians Revise the Uprising
- 13. The Great War and Irish Memory
- Worlds Apart?
- 14. Ireland and the End of Empire
- Inventing Irelands
- [Interchapter]
- 15. Writing Ireland, Reading England
- 16. Inventing Irelands
- 17. Revolt Into Style—Yeatsian Poetics
- 18. The Last Aisling—A Vision
- 19. James Joyce and Mythic Realism
- Sexual Politics
- [Interchapter]
- 20. Elizabeth Bowen—The Dandy in Revolt
- 21. Fathers and Sons
- 22. Mothers and Daughters
- Protestant Revivals
- [Interchapter]
- 23. Protholics and Cathestants
- 24. Saint Joan—Fabian Feminist, Protestant Mystic
- 25. The Winding Stair
- 26. Religious Writing: Beckett and Others
- Underdevelopment
- [Interchapter]
- 27. The Periphery and the Centre
- 28. Flann O’Brien, Myles, and The Poor Mouth
- 29. The Empire Writes Back—Brendan Behan
- 30. Beckett’s Texts of Laughter and Forgetting
- 31. Post-Colonial Ireland—“A Quaking Sod”
- Recovery and Renewal
- [Interchapter]
- 32. Under Pressure—The Writer and Society 1960–90
- 33. Friel Translating
- 34. Translating Tradition
- Reinventing Ireland
- 35. Imagining Irish Studies
- Notes
- Index
CONVERGENCES: INVENTORIES OF THE PRESENT


Inventing Ireland
The Literature of the Modern Nation
Product Details
PAPERBACK
$52.00 • £45.95 • €47.95
ISBN 9780674463646
Publication Date: 04/25/1997
Awards & Accolades
- 1996 Michael J. Durkan Prize, American Conference for Irish Studies
- A Library Journal 35 Best Books of 1996 Selection