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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-100631214461

ISBN-139780631214465

eBay Product ID (ePID)698369

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Number of Pages184 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameScholars and Rebels : in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Publication Year2000

SubjectCeltic Languages, Revolutionary, General, Europe / Ireland, Subjects & Themes / Politics, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Foreign Language Study, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorTerry Eagleton

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight10 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN99-034968

Reviews"The enjoyments of this book are its many elaborate periods, wonderful put-downs and instantly memorable apercus: practically every paragraph ends with a punch-line." Reviews"This volume invites comparison to Robert Tracy's recent The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities." Choice"is ambitious in its scope, and it offers an original and compelling exploration of the networks that formed the 'outsized village' that was nineteenth-century Dublin". History of Education, The enjoyments of this book are its many elaborate periods, wonderful put-downs and instantly memorable apercus: practically every paragraph ends with a punch-line." ReviewsThis volume invites comparison to Robert Tracy's recent The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities." Choiceis ambitious in its scope, and it offers an original and compelling exploration of the networks that formed the 'outsized village' that was nineteenth-century Dublin". History of Education, "The enjoyments of this book are its many elaborate periods, wonderful put-downs and instantly memorable apercus : practically every paragraph ends with a punch-line." Reviews "This volume invites comparison to Robert Tracy's recent The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities. " Choice "is ambitious in its scope, and it offers an original and compelling exploration of the networks that formed the 'outsized village' that was nineteenth-century Dublin". History of Education

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal306/.09418/35

Table Of ContentPreface. 1. Colonial Intellectuals. 2. Portrait of a Clerisy. 3. Savants and Society. 4. The Dismal Science. 5. Young Irelanders and Others. Index.

SynopsisTerry Eagleton provides a novel account of Ireland's neglected "national" intellectuals, an extraordinary group, including such figures as Oscar Wilde's father William Wilde, Charles Lever, Samuel Ferguson, Isaac Butt, Sheridan Le Fanu. They formed a kind of Irish version of "Bloomsbury", but one composed, exceptionally, of scientists, mathematicians, economists, and lawyers, rather than preponderantly of artists and critics. Their work, much of it published in the pages of the Dublin University Magazine, was deeply caught up in networks of kinship, shared cultural interests and intersecting biographies in the outsized village of nineteenth-century Dublin. Eagleton explores the preoccupations of this remarkable community, in all its fascinating ferment and diversity, through the lens of Antonio Gramsci's definitions of "traditional" and "organic" intellectuals, and maps the nature of its relation to the Young Ireland movement, combining his account with some reflections on intellectual work in general and its place in political life. Scholars and Rebels is essential reading for all those concerned to understand not just the complexities of nineteenth-century Irish intellectual culture and the emergent Irish Revival, but the formation also of Irish culture in the twentieth century., âˆ— Provides a fascinating account of Irish intellectual history in the nineteenth century. âˆ— Makes essential reading for those concerned to understand the cultural forces informing the Irish Revival and the emergence of Irish modernism. âˆ— Offers invaluable insights into the role of the intellectual in public life., Scholars and Rebels must be essential reading for all those concerned to understand not just the complexities of nineteenth-century Irish intellectual culture and the emergent Irish Revival, but the formation also of Irish culture in the twentieth century.

LC Classification NumberDA950.1.E24 1999