Appropriation and Cultural Politics in Ireland, 1867-1922
by Adam Putz.
London Palgrave Macmillan UK Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
(231 pages)
Cover"; "Contents"; "List of Figures"; "Acknowledgements"; "Introduction"; "Apparitions"; "Appropriations"; "1 Matthew Arnold"; "Celtic literature"; "Irish politics"; "2 Edward Dowden"; "Mind and art"; "Spiritual brogue"; "Imperial impresario"; "3 W.B. Yeats"; "Victorian ideals"; "'At Stratford-on-Avon'"; "At Swim-Two-Swans"; "'Irving and his plume of pride'"; "4 James Joyce"; "Shakespeare explained"; "Stephen heroic"; "Conclusion"; "Notes"; "Bibliography"; "Index"
This book reconsiders the Celtic Revival by examining appropriations of Shakespeare, using close readings of works by Arnold, Dowden, Yeats and Joyce to reveal the pernicious manner in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics informed the critical paradigms that mediated the reading of Shakespeare in Ireland for a generation.