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Hibernia: chosen and introduced by John Kelly
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Recent years have seen a rediscovery of Irish writing in the century before Yeats, Synge and Joyce. Critics and scholars have shown how complex was the cultural and political matrix out of which Irish literature grew, and how impossible it is to write of the Irish novel or Irish poetry of the period without an understanding of the political and social upheavals that were a central and often tragic part of the Irish experience. The purpose of Hibernia: Literature and Nation in Victorian Ireland is to make available key and hard-to-obtain texts crucial to that long process of literary and political self-definition. Each volume reproduces the authentic text, either from the first or the most useful contemporary edition, and is prefaced by a substantial introduction. |
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