Introduction / John Wilson Foster -- The novel before 1800 / Aileen Douglas -- The national tale and allied genres, 1770s-1840s / Miranda Burgess -- The novel of the big house / Vera Kreilkamp -- The gothic novel / Siobhán Kilfeather -- Catholics and fiction during the Union, 1801-1922 / James H. Murphy -- Irish modernisms, 1880-1930 / Adrian Frazier -- James Joyce / Bruce Stewart -- Region, realism and reaction, 1922-1972 / Norman Vance -- The novel in Irish / Alan Titley -- Women novelists, 1930s-1960s / Ann Owens Weekes -- Two post-modern novelists : Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien / Terence Brown -- Life writing in the twentieth century / Elizabeth Grubgeld -- The novel and the northern troubles / Elmer Kennedy-Andrews -- Contemporary Irish fiction / Eve Patten.
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"This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes and authors. It provides critiques of individual works, accounts of important novelists and histories of subgenres and allied narrative forms, establishing significant social and political contexts for dozens of novels."--Jacket.
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Irish novel
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Andrae, A.
Englisch, ...
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English fiction-- Irish authors-- History and criticism.
Roman irlandais (anglais)-- Histoire et critique.
Engels.
English fiction-- Irish authors-- History and criticism.
English fiction-- Irish authors.
Irländsk litteratur (engelskspråkig)-- historia.