Heroic Revivals from Carlyle to Yeats

By Geraldine Higgins

Book Overview

This book reassesses the cultural and political dimensions of the Irish Revival's heroic ideal and explores its implications for the construction of Irish modernity. By foregrounding the heroic ideal, it shows how the cultural landscape carved out by these writers is far from homogenous.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349442313
• ISBN13: 9781349442317
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"