Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture

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In their day, the Anglo-Irish were the ascendant minority--Protestant, loyalist, privileged landholders in a recumbent, rural, and Catholic land. Their world is vanished, but shades of the Anglo-Irish linger in the big-house estates of Ireland and in the imaginative writings of this realm. In this first comprehensive study of their literature, Juli

"This is an excellent study. Here is a scholar who dearly loves literature for its own sake. He writes about the authors under scrutiny in a profoundly illuminating and endearing matter."--The Irish Times "... a densely written, scholarly account of the subject, bristling with argument and painstakingly researched... Some may not agree with a few of the premisses from which conclusions are reached... But learned professors are at their best when they're flying a kite or two: in this perceptive book many are flown with refreshing panache."--The Spectator