Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of
criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable
writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James
Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and John McGahern have
demonstrated the extraordinary intellectual range, thematic
complexity and stylistic innovation of Irish fiction. Derek Hand
provides a remarkably detailed picture of the Irish novel's
emergence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows the
story of the genre is the story of Ireland's troubled relationship
to modernisation. The first critical synthesis of the Irish novel
from the seventeenth century to the present day, this is a major
book for the field, and the first to thematically, theoretically
and contextually chart its development. It is an essential,
entertaining and highly original guide to the history of the Irish
novel.
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