Michael Davitt

Michael Davitt
Title Michael Davitt PDF eBook
Author John Devoy
Publisher University College Dublin Press
Pages 189
Release 2008
Genre History
ISBN 1910820997

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Tells the story of a collaboration between two giants of late c19th Irish nationalism: John Devoy and Michael Davitt

The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland

The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland
Title The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland PDF eBook
Author Michael Davitt
Publisher
Pages 760
Release 1904
Genre Feudalism
ISBN

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Within the Pale

Within the Pale
Title Within the Pale PDF eBook
Author Michael Davitt
Publisher
Pages 328
Release 1903
Genre Antisemitism
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Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation

Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation
Title Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation PDF eBook
Author Michael Davitt Bell
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 254
Release 2001
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780226041797

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In Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation, Michael Davitt Bell charts the important and often overlooked connection between literary culture and authors' careers. Bell's influential essays on nineteenth-century American writers—originally written for such landmark projects as The Columbia Literary History of the United States and The Cambridge History of American Literature—are gathered here with a major new essay on Richard Wright. Throughout, Bell revisits issues of genre with an eye toward the unexpected details of authors' lives, and invites us to reconsider the hidden functions that terms such as "romanticism" and "realism" served for authors and their critics. Whether tracing the demands of the market or the expectations of readers, Bell examines the intimate relationship between literary production and culture; each essay closely links the milieu in which American writers worked with the trajectory of their storied careers.

The Problem of American Realism

The Problem of American Realism
Title The Problem of American Realism PDF eBook
Author Michael Davitt Bell
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 260
Release 1993
Genre Education
ISBN 9780226042022

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Ever since William Dean Howells declared his "realism war" in the 1880s, literary historians have regarded the rise of "realism" and "naturalism" as the great development in American post-Civil War fiction. Yet there are many problems with this generalization. It is virtually impossible, for example, to extract from the novels and manifestoes of American writers of this period any consistent definitions of realism or naturalism as modes of literary representation. Rather than seek common traits in widely divergent "realist" and "naturalist" literary works, Michael Davitt Bell focuses here on the role that these terms played in the social and literary discourse of the 1880s and 1890s. Bell argues that in America, "realism" and "naturalism" never achieved the sort of theoretical rigor that they did in European literary debate. Instead, the function of these ideas in America was less aesthetic than ideological, promoting as "reality" a version of social normalcy based on radically anti-"literary" and heavily gendered assumptions. What effects, Bell asks, did ideas about realism and naturalism have on writers who embraced and resisted them? To answer this question, he devotes separate chapters to the work of Howells and Frank Norris (the principal American advocates of realism and naturalism in the 1880s and 1890s), Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Sarah Orne Jewett. Bell reveals that a chief function of claiming to be a realist or a naturalist was to provide assurance that one was a "real" man rather than an "effeminate" artist. Since the 1880s, Bell asserts, all serious American fiction writers have had to contend with this problematic conception of literary realism. The true story of the transformation of American fiction after the Civil War is the history of this contention - a history of individual accommodations, evasions, holding actions, and occasional triumphs.

Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882-1906

Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882-1906
Title Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882-1906 PDF eBook
Author Carla King
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2016
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781906359928

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An extensive, scholarly biography of Irish leader Michael Davitt after his involvement with the Irish Land League.

Sruth Na Maoile

Sruth Na Maoile
Title Sruth Na Maoile PDF eBook
Author Michael Davitt
Publisher
Pages 312
Release 1993
Genre Poetry
ISBN

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