Irish writers in the Irish American press, 1882-1964

"Literary anthologies feature many of Ireland's most well-known authors, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, George Bernard Shaw, Seán O'Casey, James Joyce, and Brendan Behan among them. While a number of notable scholars have contended that middle-class Irish Americans rejected o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Butler, Stephen G. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press [2018]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40590057*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • An audience of some importance
  • "Speranza's son"
  • Irish America dismisses Oscar Wilde, 1882
  • The celt in America
  • William Butler Yeats's mission to the new island, 1887-1904
  • "No end of a row"
  • The national theatre in the shadow of Synge, 1903-1909
  • "Weary of misrepresentation"
  • Reconsidering the Irish American reception of the Abbey playwrights, 1911-1913
  • Meet the new gossoon, same as the old gossoon
  • The Abbey playwrights in Irish America, 1931-1939
  • Through a bowl of bitter tears, darkly
  • James Joyce and the Amerirish, 1917-1962
  • Receptions of an Irish rebel
  • Brendan Behan in Irish America, 1960-1964
  • Conclusion.