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Shadowy Heroes - Irish Literature of the 1890s (Hardcover, illustrated Edition)
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Shadowy Heroes - Irish Literature of the 1890s (Hardcover, illustrated Edition)
Series: Irish Studies
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The Irish writers of the 1890s-Somerville and Ross, George Moore,
Edward Martyn, George Russell, and William Butler Yeats-repeatedly
sought to define for their literature and nation a messianic hero
and thus to help shape the political and social consciousness of
the Irish people. Wayne Hall examines the writing of this decade
within its economic and political context, especially the
relationship of literature to the issues of land reform and the
decline of the Protestant Ascendancy in late nineteenth-century
Ireland. Literature and politics tenuously joined forces early in
the decade. But the writers came increasingly to identify their own
interests with those of the old social order and the landed gentry.
They deplored the materialism and egalitarianism that was sweeping
aside the manorial past, and as a way of preserving, at least
temporarily, the values associated with economic feudalism, they
brought to the vanishing way of life its finest artistic
expression. The 1890s thus proved to be a crucial transition
period, and later Irish writers took many of their themes and
literary concerns from this decade. The early stages of the Irish
Renaissance also exemplify a problem recurring throughout
twentieth-century Western art-the alienation of the artist from
society. Failing to unite with and transform the actual
circumstances of Ireland, the writers responded by retreating from
it and by substituting instead myths of their own making.
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