Against the Despotism of Fact : Modernism, Capitalism, and the Irish Celt /

"First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boynton, T. J., 1980-
Corporate Author: ProQuest ebook central
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Series:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Celticism, Capitalism, and Transnational Modernism
  • British Celticism. Matthew Arnold, the Ontology of English Capitalism, and the Rebirth of Celtic Tragedy
  • The Uses of Irishness, I: British Imperial-Romantic Celticism
  • The Uses of Irishness, II: British Modernist Celticism
  • Irish Celticism. "A Nation of Imitators": Anti-Capitalisms of the Irish Revival, 1885-1910
  • "In Front of the Cracked Looking Glass": Revivalist Modernism, the Irish Female Consumer, and the Colonial Spectacle
  • The Bathetic Muse: Irish Late Modernism
  • Conclusion: Post-Celticism