Hellenism and Reconciliation in Ireland: From Yeats to Field Day

by Nathan Wallace

This book is a genealogy of reconciliation in modern Ireland. As Seamus Deane has written, reconciliation stands at a nexus between politics and aesthetics in Irish writing, and has therefore often been a vehicle of colonial ideology. This book shows that the term often fits into a pattern that the author calls the iconography of reconciliation.



This iconography began in the 1810s when Samuel Taylor Coleridge synthesized Edmund Burke's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178205068X
• ISBN13: 9781782050681
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 9.3"