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Overview"This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist moments and movements have compelled authors to reject established forms and invent new ones. Sometimes, as in the middle period of W.B. Yeats's work, populism forces a writer into impossible stances, spurring ever greater rhetorical and poetic creativity. At other times, as in the critiques of Anna Parnell or Myles na gCopaleen, authors penetrate the rhetoric fog of populist discourse and expose the hollowness of its claims. Yet in both politics and culture, populism can be a generative force. Daniel O'Connell, and later the Land League, utilized populist discourse to advance Irish political freedom and expand rights. The most powerful works of Lady Gregory and Ernie O'Malley are their portraits of The People that borrows from the populist vocabulary. While we must be critical of populist discourse, we dismiss it at our loss. This study synthesizes existing scholarship on populism to explore how Irish texts have evoked ""The People""--a crucial rhetorical move for populist discourse--and how some writers have critiqued, adopted, and adapted the languages of Irish populisms." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Seamus O'Malley (Associate Professor of English, Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.622kg ISBN: 9780192858412ISBN 10: 0192858416 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 23 June 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Introduction 1: The Populism of the Long Nineteenth Century 2: ""Land for the People!"" Land League and its Critics 3: Lady Gregory and the Voice of The People 4: Yeats and The People against Populism 5: ""THE PEOPLE"" of the Easter Rising 6: Governing The People Conclusion"Reviews"The nation and nationalism are often central in analyses of modern Irish culture. O'Malley's timely and innovative study challenges that dominance by highlighting the uses of the related, but distinct concept of the 'Irish People' in the discourse of key literary and political figures. * Archiv f""ur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 260:2 *" Author InformationSeamus O'Malley is Associate Professor of English at Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University. He is the author of Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative (OUP, 2015) and has published widely on British and Irish modernist literature, as well as graphic novels. He has co-edited two books on Ford Madox Ford, and one on the cartoonists Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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