Research Catalog

Title

Against the despotism of fact : modernism, capitalism, and the Irish Celt / T.J. Boynton.

Author

Boynton, T. J., 1980-

Publication

• Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

viii, 277 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Emerging at a moment of escalating colonial conflict between England and Ireland, the figure of the Irish Celt enjoyed a long and varied career in both English and Irish literature from the late Victorian era to World War II. While this figure assumes many forms and functions, T. J. Boynton argues that he is consistently cast as inherently resistant to capitalism. Beginning with an innovative reassessment of Matthew Arnold's The Study of Celtic Literature, from which the book also takes its title, Against the Despotism of Fact offers new readings of major works by writers such as Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. In their writing, Boynton argues, the Irish Celt served as a transnational vehicle of modernist experimentation geared toward interrogating the imperial, social, and pop-cultural dimensions of capitalist modernity. Making a significant contribution to Irish studies, modernist studies, and postcolonial studies, Against the Despotism of Fact draws attention to not only the prevalence but also the critical potential of this fraught figure."--

Series Statement

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Uniform Title

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism
• Modernism (Literature) > Ireland
• Celts in literature
• Capitalism in literature
• National characteristics, Irish, in literature
• Nationalism and literature > Ireland
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• English literature
• English literature > Irish authors
• Modernism (Literature)
• Nationalism and literature
• Ireland

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Literary criticism.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Celticism, capitalism, and transnational modernism -- British Celticism. Matthew Arnold, the ontology of English capitalism, and the rebirth of Celtic tragedy -- The uses of Irishness, I : British imperial-romantic Celticism -- The uses of Irishness, II : British modernist Celticism -- Irish Celticism. "A nation of imitators" : anti-capitalisms of the Irish Revival, 1885-1910 -- "In front of the cracked looking glass" : revivalist modernism, the Irish female consumer, and the colonial spectacle -- The bathetic muse : Irish late modernism -- Conclusion: Post-Celticism.

Call Number

JFE 21-4126

ISBN

• 1438481810
• 9781438481814
• 1438481802
• 9781438481807

LCCN

2020017922

OCLC

1194958587

Author

Boynton, T. J., 1980- author.

Title

Against the despotism of fact : modernism, capitalism, and the Irish Celt / T.J. Boynton.

Publisher

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Boynton, T. J., 1980- Against the despotism of fact. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021] 9781438481821

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4126