English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Humor - History & Criticism, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Irish Fiction & Prose Literature - Literary Criticism, Peoples & Cultures
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Overview
William Carleton, Ireland's great but overlooked nineteenth-century writer, has for the past 150 years been denigrated as a failed novelist, but is here redeemed by David Krause's in-depth study of all his significant novels. Carleton employed techniques similar to the multi-voiced carnival (where oral folk tradition combines sacred with profane and the great with the insignificant) and mock-heroic version of pastoral (where comic characters make profound remarks and whose actions have unanticipated great effects). Through his novels, Carleton illuminated the exploitation of Irish lands by indifferent British authorities and rackrenting Anglo-Irish landlords and subsequent famine and holocaust. Krause's recognition of this ignored author of Irish fiction is a valuable addition to the field of Anglo-Irish literary studies.Author Biography: David Krause is Professor of English Emeritus, Adjunct Professor at Brown University and author of "Sean O'Casey, The Man and His Work."
Book Details
Published
July 1, 2000
Publisher
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2000.
Pages
344
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780761816577