• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Farming in modern Irish literature
  • Contributor: Grene, Nicholas [Author]
  • Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021
  • Published in: Oxford scholarship online
  • Issue: First edition.
  • Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages); illustrations (black and white)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198861294.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780191893353
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  • Keywords: English literature Irish authors History and criticism ; English literature History and criticism 20th century ; English literature History and criticism 21st century ; Agriculture in literature
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  • Footnote: This edition also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 27, 2021)
  • Description: This innovative study analyses the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a developed urban society. In many different forms including poetry, drama, fiction, and autobiography, writers have made literary capital by looking back at their rural backgrounds, even where those may be a generation back.