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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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0 |
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| Terms of availability |
Purchase |
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Purchased |
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Bookshop |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
891.62 |
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EAG/HE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Eagleton,Terry |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
HEATHCLIFF AND THE GREAT HUNGER: STUDIES IN IRISH CULTURE |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Verso |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1996/01/01 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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355 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Summary: <br/>When James Joyce called the Irish 'the most belated race in Europe', he stated a complex truth about the history of his people and the nation they had been creating since the eighteenth century. The Irish would, in Joyce's lifetime, write many of the masterpieces of modernism in English, while at the same time forging a nation-state in many ways still backward-looking and traditionalist. This paradox of Irish history is one of the many topics addressed in Terry Eagleton's latest book. Heathcliff and the Great Hunger reads Irish culture from Swift and Burke to Yeats and Joyce in the light of the torturous, often tragic socio-political history that conditioned it. Eagleton opens with a brilliant conjugation of Wuthering Heights in the context of the famine in Ireland, highlighting the Irish connections of the Bronte family. He follows with a powerful analysis of the Protestant Ascendancy's failure to achieve hegemony in Ireland; a dissection of the paradoxes of the Act of Union; a detailed account, spanning fiction from Swift and Maria Edgeworth, through Lady Morgan, Mauturin, Le Fanu and Stoker, to George Moore, of why the realist novel never flourished in Ireland; and a pointed consideration of the two great Irish exiles, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. The book also looks at the radical culture of Ulster and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century Ireland. |
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Available-Active |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Ireland -- Civilization. |
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English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism. |
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Brontë, Emily, -- 1818-1848. -- Wuthering Heights. |
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Lending |
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Nil |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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858.13999999999999 |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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