"An ambitious, even an audacious book.... Charting new territory."—Philip O'Leary, Modern Fiction Studies
"Anyone who deals with the Irish Revival in the future is going to have to come to terms with this vast, cogent, and important work."—Journal of Modern Literature
"A work of intelligent criticism.... Fills more gaps in our sources than most commentators have ever cared to acknowledge."—Books Ireland
"Another fine volume in the Syracuse Irish studies series.... Foster is exhaustive in examining every conceivable type of fiction produced in this artistically rich period."—Alexander G. Gonzalez, The Irish Literary Supplement
"Putting it plainly, Foster's book is the most comprehensive, original, and engrossing treatment of its subject that I have seen in a long time.... No one who lectures or writes on modern Irish literature can afford to ignore it."—Patrick A. McCarthy, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
Description
A learned and comprehensive work covering a wide range of major and minor figures, Fiction of the Irish Revival remains a valuable and standard sourcebook to the scholarship on late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Irish literature and culture.
About the Author
John Wilson Foster is a freelance writer and literary critic and an honorary research fellow at Queen's University Belfast, from where he graduated with a B.A. and M.A. He has published books and articles on natural history, folklore, and Irish and English literature.
Related Interest
April 1993