Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive

This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for the past as a potential representation of difference and connection.

This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for the past as a potential representation of difference and connection.

Maria McGarrity is Associate Professor of English, Long Island University.

Claire A. Culleton is Professor of Modern British and Irish Literature, Kent State University.