Irish Expatriatism, Language and Literature The Problem of English /
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| Summary: | VI, 228 p. 3 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95900-9 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Swift: The Irish expat ‘at home’ with “our language”
- 3. Goldsmith: The Irish expat in London as “Chinaman”
- 4. Irish expat empire builders in China and Hong Kong: Robert Hart and John Pope Hennessy
- 5. Yeats: The expat buys property back home
- 6. Joyce: The expat and the ‘loss of English’
- 7. Bowen: the unspeakable loneliness of the Anglo-Irish expat
- 8. Boland: can the expat find a ‘home’ in language?
- 9. A Forgotten Irish Cosmopolitanism: Goh Poh Seng’s Ireland
- 10. Social Network Expatriatism and new departures in John Boyne and Donal Ryan.