Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism

by Julia M. Wright

Book Overview

Ireland is a country which has come to be defined in part by an ideology which conflates nationalism with the land. From the Irish Revival's celebration of the Irish peasant farmer as the ideal Irishman to the fierce history of land claim battles between the Irish and their colonizers, notions of the land have become particularly bound up with conceptions of what Ireland is and what it is to be Irish. In this book, Wright considers this fraught relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081563353X
• ISBN13: 9780815633532
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"