Isbn: 9780902561496 - the Writer as Witness: Literature as Historical Evidence (2 results)
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The Writer as Witness: Literature as Historical Evidence (Historical Studies XVI)
Dunne, Tom (Editor) - Charles Doherty, Donnchadh Ó Corráin, John Scattergood, Katharine Simms, Brendan Bradshaw, Seamus Deane, Oliver MacDonagh, Eda Sagarra, David Hempton, Owen Dudley Edwards, Lawrence J. McCaffrey
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xii, 244 pages. Original publisher's rexine covered boards, with unclipped dust jacket. *Papers read before the Irish Conference of Historians, held at University College, Cork 23-26 May 1985. Topics include: Lliterary theory and the historian; The Irish hagiographer; Legend as critic; 'Winner and Waster' and the mid-fourteenth century economy; Bardic poetry as a historical source; Edmund Spenser on Justice and Mercy; Irish National Character 1790-1900; 'Sanditon': a Regency novel?; Fiction as 'the best history of nations': Lady Morgan's Irish novels; Jewish emancipation in nineteenth-century Germany and the stereotyping of the Jew in Gustav Freytag's 'Soll und Haben' (1855); Popular religion and irreligion in Victorian fiction; Mark Twain: historian of a lost world; Fictional images of Irish -America.* A fine copy without any library stamps, inscriptions, or other markings. Images available on request.…
