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Hardcover Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 to 1939 Book

ISBN: 0198128061

ISBN13: 9780198128069

Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 to 1939

Ireland's footing within the United Kingdom in the period between Edmund Burke's last years and the generation of Yeats and Joyce, was unique and anomalous: in social terms this was evident in the prestige of the Protestant Ascendancy; and in literary terms in the values accorded to the notion of tradition. This study uncovers the bourgeois origins of Ascendancy ideology in the alarm of the 1790s, and traces its cultural significance by means of a...

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