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题名/责任者:

Ireland, reading and cultural nationalism, 1790-1930 : bringing the nation to book / Andrew Murphy.

出版发行项:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

ISBN:

9781107133563 (hardback)

ISBN:

9781107590045 (paperback)

载体形态项:

xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

个人责任者:

Murphy, Andrew (Andrew D.), author.

论题主题:

Books and reading-Ireland.

论题主题:

Nationalism and literature-Ireland.

中图法分类号:

G239.562

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index.

摘要附注:

"The emergence of an Irish 'common reader' in the nineteenth century had significant implications for the evolution of Irish cultural nationalism. The rise of literacy rates prompted a cultural crisis, with nationalists fearing that the beneficiaries of mass education were being drawn to populist publications emanating from London which were having the effect of eroding Irish identity and corrupting Irish morals. This fear prompted an intensification of cultural nationalist activity at the turn of the century. Andrew Murphy's study, which includes a chapter on W. B. Yeats and the Irish reader, moves freely between historical and literary analysis and demonstrates how a developing sense of cultural crisis served as an engine for the Irish literary revival. Examining responses to Irish reading habits advanced by a wide range of cultural commentators, Murphy provides a nuanced discussion of theories of nationalism and examines attempts finally to control reading habits through the introduction of censorship"--

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