Yeats's Nations : Gender, Class, and Irishness

Author(s): Howes, Marjorie

Binding:	Softcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Cambridge University Press
Publication Year:	1998
ISBN:	9780521645270
Book ID:	002370
Catalogue(s):	Literary History and Criticism ◇ Poetry, Poetical Criticism and Poets

1st softback edition, following first publication in 1996. 240pp. Indexed. Illustrated card covers (gentle edge wear, else clean, sharp and bright). Previous owner's name on fly leaf. Very good reading, reference, study copy. Yeats, it has been claimed, invented a country and called it Ireland. Howes' study is the first sustained attempt to examine Yeats's continuous search for political origins and cultural traditions.

Keywords:

yeats poetry plays culture identity revolution republic ireland nationalism irish studies eire 1916 rising