Crazy John and the Bishop, and Other Essays on Irish Culture

by Terry Eagleton

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"This innovative collection of essays views Irish culture from the eighteenth-century to the present day, covering a wide range of Irish topics and authors. Bishop Berkeley, Thomas Moore, Oliver Goldsmith, Francis Hutcheson, Laurence Sterne, Richard Steele, Edmund Burke, Maria Edgeworth, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, James Stephens, Charles Lever, Austin Clarke, Kate O'Brien and Francis Stuart are among the more familiar writers, but the author also sets out to retrieve a range of neglected show more Irish writers including William Dunkin, John Toland, Frederick Ryan, 'Father Prout', William McGinn, Shan Bullock, Canon Sheehan and George Birmingham."--Jacket. show less

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Terry Eagleton received a Ph.D from Cambridge University. He is a literary critic and a writer. He has written about 50 books including Shakespeare and Society, Criticism and Ideology, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Literary Theory, The Illusions of Postmodernism, Why Marx Was Right, The Event of Literature, and Across the Pond: An Englishman's show more View of America. He wrote a novel entitled Saints and Scholars, several plays including Saint Oscar, and a memoir entitled The Gatekeeper. He is also the chair in English literature in Lancaster University's department of English and creative writing. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Crazy John and the Bishop, and Other Essays on Irish Culture

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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820.9Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literaturesHistory, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one form
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PR8714 .E28Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteratureEnglish literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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