Research Catalog

Title

Ancestral voices : the big house in Anglo-Irish literature : a collection of interpretations / edited by Otto Rauchbauer.

Publication

Hildesheim ; New York : G. Olms, 1992.

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Additional Authors

Rauchbauer, Otto.

Description

xx, 307 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

Anglistische und amerikanistische Texte und Studien, 0179-9207 ; Bd. 6

Uniform Title

Anglistische und amerikanistische Texte und Studien ; Bd. 6.

Subjects

• British in literature
• English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism
• Dwellings in literature
• Ireland > In literature
• Space and time in literature
• Home in literature
• Country homes in literature
• Families in literature
• Literature and society > Ireland

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Fragmentary Voices on the Big House (Mottos) -- The Big House and Irish History: An Introductory Sketch / Otto Rauchbauer -- Continuity and Change in Irish Fiction: The Case of the Big-House Novel / Klaus Lubbers -- Setting and Ideology: with Reference to the Fiction of Maria Edgeworth / W.J. Mc Cormack -- Reflecting Absent Interiors: The Big-House Novels of Charles Lever / Christopher Morash -- The Country House in George Moore's A Drama in Muslin / Paul Goetsch -- Somerville & Ross: The Real Charlotte and The Big House of Inver / Rudiger Imhof -- Lennox Robinson, The Big House, Killycreggs in Twilight and "the Vestigia of Generations" / Christopher Murray -- The Big House, Yeats, and the Irish Context / Antony Coleman -- The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen's Paradise Lost / Lorna Reynolds -- The Big House in the Irish Short Story after 1918: A Critical Survey / Otto Rauchbauer -- Molly Keane, Good Behaviour, Time After Time, and Loving and Giving / Rudiger Imhof --
• Reinventing a Form: the Big House in Aidan Higgins' Langrishe, Go Down / Vera Kreilkamp -- "This White Elephant of a Place": Jennifer Johnston's Uses of the Big House / Klaus Lubbers -- "This Lawless House" - John Banville's Post-Modernist Treatment of the Big-House Motif in Birchwood and The Newton Letter / Susanne Burgstaller -- Saints of the Ascendancy: William Trevor's Big-House Novels / Max Deen Larsen -- The Big House: A Genealogist's Perspective and a Personal Point of View / Henry McDowell.

ISBN

3487095319

LCCN

92192361

OCLC

• 26586813
• ocm26586813

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries