Irish orientalism : a literary and intellectual history

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Label

Irish orientalism : a literary and intellectual history

Title remainder

a literary and intellectual history

Statement of responsibility

Joseph Lennon

Creator

• Lennon, Joseph, (Joseph Allen)

Subject

• Comparative literature -- Irish and Oriental
• Comparative literature -- Oriental and Irish
• English literature -- Irish authors | Asian influences
• English literature -- Irish authors | History and criticism
• English literature -- Irish authors | Oriental influences
• Ireland -- Intellectual life
• Middle East -- In literature
• Oriental literature -- Appreciation -- Ireland
• Orientalism -- Ireland
• Orientalism in literature
• Asia -- In literature

Language

eng

Summary

• "British writers from Cambrensis to Spenser depicted Ireland as a remote borderland inhabited by wild descendants of Asian Scythians - barbarians to the ancient Greeks. Contemporaneous Irish writers likewise borrowed classical traditions, imagining the Orient as an ancient homeland. Lennon traces the influence of Irish Orientalism through origin legends, philology, antiquarianism, and historiography into Irish literature and culture, exploring the works of Keating, O'Flaherty, Swift, Vallancey, Sheridan, Moore, Croker, Owenson, Mangan, de Vere, and others. He explores a key moment of Irish Orientalism - the twentieth-century, Celtic Revival - discussing the works of Gregory, Casement, Connolly, and Joyce, but focusing on Theosophist writers W.B
• Yeats, George Russell, James Stephens, and James Cousins."--Jacket

Member of

• Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

820.9/9417

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PR8719

LC item number

.L46 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Irish studies