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World Literatures in English: Ireland - Selected Works

Contents: Literary History & Criticism | Collections | Prose, Poetry & Drama - Representative Authors

Included here are seminal and recent works.  Most of the materials may be checked-out.  Be sure to consult the Western Libraries Online Catalog for location and availability.


Literary History & Criticism

Contents: Literature in General | Drama | Fiction | Poetry

Literature in General

Backus, Margot Gayle. The Gothic Family Romance : Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order. Durham, NC : Duke U P, 1999.
PR 8807 .F25 B33 1999

Castle, Gregory. Modernism and the Celtic Revival. Cambridge : Cambridge U P, 2001.
PR 8722 .M6 C37 2001

Clarke, Austin. The Celtic Twilight and the Nineties. Dublin : Dolmen, 1969.
PR 461 .C57

Cleary, Joe. Literature, Partition and the Nation-state : Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel, and Palestine. Cambridge : Cambridge U P, 2002.
PR 8722 .N27 C54 2002

Daniels, Patsy J. The Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor : A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa, and America. New York : Routledge, 2001.
PS 153 .M56 D36 2001

Dasenbrock, Reed Way. Imitating the Italians : Wyatt, Spenser, Synge, Pound, Joyce. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins U P, 1991.
PR 129 .I8 D37 1991

Deane, Seamus. Celtic Revivals : Essays in Modern Irish Literature, 1880-1980. London : Faber and Faber, 1985.
PR 8718 .D43 1985

Deane, Seamu. Strange Country : Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing Since 1790. Oxford : Oxford U P, 1997.
PR 8718 .D44 1997

Dillane, Fionnuala and Ronan Kelly, eds. New voices in Irish criticism 4. Dublin : Four Courts, 2003.
PR8714 .N48 2003

Eagleton, Terry. Crazy John and the Bishop and Other Essays on Irish Culture. Notre Dame : U of Notre Dame P, 1998.
PR 8714 .E28 1998

Fallis, Richard. The Irish Renaissance. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse U P, 1977.
PR 8750 .F34

Finneran, Richard J., ed. Anglo Irish Literature : A Review of Research. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1976.
PR 8712 .A5

Grubgeld, Elizabeth. Anglo-Irish autobiography : class, gender, and the forms of narrative. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse U P, 2004.
PR8817 .G78 2004

Howes, Marjorie. Yeats's Nations : Gender, Class, and Irishness. Cambridge : Cambridge U P, 1996.
PR 5908.P6 H69 1996

Irish Renaissance Annual. Newark : U of Delaware P, 1980-1983.
PR 8753 .I7 v.1-4

Jeffares, A. Norman. Anglo-Irish literature. New York : Schocken, 1982.
PR 8711 .J4 1982

Kelleher, Margaret. The Feminization of Famine : Expressions of the Inexpressible? Durham, NC : Duke U P, 1997.
PR 8807 .W6 K45 1997

Kenneally, Michael, ed. Cultural Contexts and Literary Idioms in Contemporary Irish Literature. Gerrards Cross : C.Smythe, 1988.
PR 8754 .C84 1988

Kersnowski, Frank L., C. W. Spinks and Laird Loomis. A Bibliography of Modern Irish and Anglo-Irish Literature. San Antonio : Trinity U P, 1976.
PR 8711 .K45

Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland. Cambridge : Harvard U P, 1996.
PR 8753 .K53 1996

Kiberd, Declan. Irish Classics. Cambridge : Harvard U P, 2001.
PR 8714 .K54 2001

Kirkpatrick, Kathryn, ed. Border Crossings : Irish Women Writers and National Identities. Tuscaloosa : U of Alabama P, 2000.
Pr 8733 .B67 2000

Lanters, José. Unauthorized Versions : Irish Menippean Satire, 1919-1952. Washington : Catholic U of America P, 2000.
PR 8815 .L36 2000

Lloyd, David. Anomalous States : Irish Writing and the Post-colonial Moment. Durham : Duke U P, 1993.
PR 8753 .L56 1993

MacDonagh, Thomas. Literature in Ireland : Studies Irish and Anglo-Irish. New York : F. A. Stokes, 1916.
PR 8711 .M3 1916

Mahony, Christina Hunt. Contemporary Irish Literature : Transforming Tradition. >New York : St. Martin's, 1998.
PR 8753 .M34 1998

McCormack, W. J. Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 to 1939. Oxford : Oxford U P, 1985.
PR 8711 .M33 1985

McHugh, Roger and Maurice Harmon. Short History of Anglo-Irish Literature from its Origins to the Present Day. Totowa, NJ : Barnes & Noble, 1982.
PR 8711 .M35 1982

Morse, Donald E. and Csilla Bertha, eds. More Real than Reality : The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts. New York : Greenwood, 1991.
PR 8722 .F35 M6 1991

Moynahan, Julian. Anglo-Irish : The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton U P, 1995.
PR 8752 .M69 1995

Myers, James P., Jr., ed. Writing Irish : Selected Interviews with Writers from the Irish Literary Supplement. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse U P, 1999.
PR 8753 .W75 1999

O'Connor, Theresa, ed. The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers. Gainesville : U P of Florida, 1996.
PR 8733 .C66 1996

O'Connor, Ulick. All the Olympians : A Biographical Portrait of the Irish Literary Renaissance. New York : Atheneum, 1984.
PR 8750 .O36 1984

Palmer, Patricia. Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland : English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion. Cambridge : Cambridge U P, 2001.
PR129 .I7 P35 2001

Partridge, A. C. Language and Society in Anglo-Irish Literature. Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1984.
PR 8718 .P37 1984

Rawson, Claude. God, Gulliver, and Genocide : Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945. Oxford : Oxford U P, 2001.
PR 3724.G8 R38 2001

Seymour, St. John D. Anglo-Irish Literature, 1200-1582. New York : Octogon, 1970.
PR 8711 .S4 1970

Shaw, Bernard. The Matter with Ireland. eds. Dan H. Laurence and David H. Greene. Gainesville : U P of Florida, 2001.
DA 913 .S45 2001

Small, Ian. Oscar Wilde Revalued : An Essay on New Materials & Methods of Research. Greensboro, NC : ELT, 1993.
PR 5823 .S63 1993

Snyder, Edward D. The Celtic Revival in English Literature, 1760-1800. Gloucester, MA, P. Smith, 1965 [c1923].
PR 448.C4 S6 1965

Tracy, Robert. The Unappeasable Host : Studies in Irish Identities. Dublin : U College Dublin P, 1998.
PR 8718 .T73 1998

Vance, Norman. Irish Literature : A Social History : Tradition, Identity, and Difference. Oxford : B. Blackwell, 1990.
PR 8711 .V3 1990

Weekes, Ann Owens. Irish Women Writers : An Uncharted Tradition. Lexington, KY : U P of Kentucky, 1990.
PR 8733 .W44 1990

Welch, Robert, ed. Irish Writers and Religion. Savage, MD : Barnes & Noble, 1992.
PR 8722 .R4 I75 1992

Yeats, W. B. and Thomas Kinsella. Davis, Mangan, Ferguson? Tradition & the Irish Writer. Dublin : Dolman, 1970.
PR 8765 .D3


Drama

Eyre, Richard. Changing Stages. [videorecording] Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2001.
Video Collection PN 2189 .C493 2001 v. 3-5

King, Kimball, ed. Modern Dramatists : A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights. New York : Routledge, 2001.
PR 736 .M56 2001

Mikhail, E. H. Dissertations on Anglo-Irish Drama; a Bibliography of Studies, 1870-1970. Totowa, NJ : Rowman and Littlefield, 1973.
PR 8783 .M54

Price, Alan Frederick. Synge and Anglo-Irish Drama. London : Methuen, 1961.
PR 5534 .P7

RM Associates. Michael Holroyd on George Bernard Shaw. [videorecording] Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2000.
Video Collection PR 5366 .M49 2000

Schrank, Bernice and William W. Demastes, eds. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995 : A Research and Production Sourcebook. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1997.
Ref. PR 8789 .I67 1997

Setterquist, Jan. Ibsen and the Beginnings of Anglo-Irish Drama. New York : Gordian, 1974.
PR 8789 .S4 1974

Trotter, Mary. Ireland's National Theaters : Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic Movement. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse U P, 2001.
PN 2601 .T76 2001

Watt, Stephen, Eileen Morgan, and Shakir Mustafa, eds. A Century of Irish Drama : Widening the Stage. Bloomington : Indiana U P, 2000.
PR 8789 .C46 2000


Fiction

Cahalan, James M. Double Visions : Women and Men in Modern and Contemporary Irish Fiction. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse U P, 1999.
PR 8807 .W6 C35 1999

Cahalan, James M. The Irish Novel : A Critical History. Boston : Twayne, 1988.
PR 8797 .C34 1988

Cronin, John. The Anglo-Irish Novel. Totowa, NJ : Barnes & Noble, 1980.
PR 8797 .C7 1980 v.1-2

Foster, John Wilson. Fictions of the Irish Literary Revival : A Changeling Art. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse U P, 1987.
PR 8801 .F6 1987

Harte, Liam and Michael Parker, eds. Contemporary Irish Fiction : Themes, Tropes, Theories. New York : St. Martin's, 2000.
PR 8803 .C65 2000

Kreilkamp, Vera. The Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse U P, 1998.
PR 8807 .C68 K74 1998

Lawrence, Karen R., ed. Transcultural Joyce. Cambridge : Cambridge U P, 1998.
PR 6019.O9 Z84 1998

Peach, Linden. The contemporary Irish novel : critical readings. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
PR8803 .P43 2004

St. Peter, Christine. Changing Ireland : Strategies in Contemporary Women's Fiction. New York : St. Martin's, 2000.
PR 8807 .W6 S7 2000

Tymoczko, Maria. The Irish Ulysses. Berkeley : U of California P, 1994.
PR 6019.O9 U748 1994


Poetry

Gonzalez, Alexander G. ed. Contemporary Irish Women Poets : Some Male Perspectives. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1999.
PR 8733 .C67 1999

Grennan, Eamon. Facing the Music : Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century. Omaha : Creighton U P, 1999.
PR 8771 .G74 1999

Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle, ed. My Self, My Muse : Irish Women Poets Reflect on Life and Art. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse U P, 2001.
PR 8733 .M9 2001

Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle. Women Creating Women : Contemporary Irish Women Poets. Syracuse : Syracuse U P, 1996.
PR 8733 .H33 1996

Kinsella, Thomas. The Dual Tradition : An Essay on Poetry and Politics in Ireland. Manchester : Carcanet, 1995.
PR 8761 .K56 1995

Loftus, Richard J. Nationalism in Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry. Madison : U of Wisconsin P, 1964.
PR 8771 .L6

Lucy, Seán, ed. Irish Poets in English : The Thomas Davis Lectures on Anglo-Irish Poetry. Cork : Mercier, 1973, c1972.
PR 8765 .L8

Meir, Colin. The Ballads and Songs of W. B. Yeats : The Anglo-Irish Heritage in Subject and Style. New York : Barnes & Noble, 1974.
PR 5907 .M38

Power, Patrick C. The Story of Anglo-Irish Poetry, 1800-1922. Cork : Mercier, 1967.
PR 8765 .P6

William Butler Yeats : The Heart of Ireland. [videorecording] Nebraska ETV Network in association with the Great Amwell Company. Thousand Oaks, CA : Monterey Home Video, 1997.
Video Collection PR 5900 .A323 1997


Collections, with Introductory Essays

Bourke, Angela, et al., eds. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. Irish Women's Writing and Traditions. New York : New York U P, 2002.
PB 1347 .F54 2002 v. 4 -5

Craig, Patricia, ed. The Oxford Book of Ireland. Oxford : Oxford U P, 1998.
PR 8835 .O95 1998

Deane, Seamus, ed. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. Lawrence Hill, Derry, Northern Ireland : Field Day, 1991.
PB 1347 .F54 1991 v.1-3

Fallon, Peter and Derek Mahon, eds. The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry. London : Penguin, 1990.
PR 8858 .P4 1990

Garrity, Devin A. 44 Irish Short Stories, an Anthology of Irish Short Fiction from Yeats to Frank O'Connor. New York : Devin-Adair, 1955.
PR 8875 .G3

Greene, David H., ed. An Anthology of Irish Literature. New York : New York U P, 1971.
PB 1421 .G68 1971 v.1-2

Hoagland, Kathleen. 1000 Years of Irish Poetry; the Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the Present. New York : Devin-Adair, 1947.
PB 1424 .H6

Kiely, Benedict, comp. Dublin. Oxford : Oxford U P, 1983.
PR 8892 .D8 D8 1983

Marcus, David, ed. Mothers and Daughters : Irish Short Stories. London : Bloomsbury, 1998.
PR 8876 .M67 1998

McMahon, Sean, ed. The Best from The Bell : Great Irish Writing. Totowa, NJ : Rowman and Littlefield, 1979.
PR 8844 .B4 1979

O'Brien, Peggy, ed. The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry, 1967-2000. Winston-Salem, NC : Wake Forest U P, 1999.
PR 8853 .W34 1999

Phoenix Irish Short Stories. London : Phoenix House, 1996-.
PR 8876 .P46 1996

Pierce, David, ed. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century : A Reader. Cork : Cork U P, 2000.
PR 8844 .I76 2000

Sonzoghi, Marco, ed. Or Volge l'Anno = At the Year's Turning : An Anthology of Irish Poets Responding to Leopardi. Dublin : Dedalus, 1998.
Special Collections-The Western Collection, Skinner

Woolley, James, ed. The Intelligencer : Jonathan Swift and Thomas Sheridan. Oxford : Oxford U P, 1992.
PR 3724 .I58 1992

Toibín, Cólm, ed. The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction. New York : Viking, 1999.
PR 8875 .P46 1999

Yeats, W. B., comp. Representative Irish Tales. Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities, 1979.
PR 8875 .R4


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