New world Irish: notes on one hundred years of lives and letters in American culture

The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material fromroughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies. JOHN MATTHEW MORGAN Research Professor of Science and Technology at Missouri University, USA. INDICE: Among Cromwell's Children: The Irish in Yankee New England - Requiem for the 'St. John': Thoreau's 'The Shipwreck' as Irish Famine Narrative - Blighted Prospects: Irish Historical Haunting in America - Fair and Funeral: Henry O'Clarence McCarthy and the American Fenian Years - Broom and Bridget: The Irish Servant and New England Households - Harold Frederic, The Irish, and 'The Damnation of Theron Ware' - The Liffey to the Red River: Demented Mentors in Scott Fitzgerald's 'Absolution' and Joyce's 'The Sisters' - John Ford, the Irish, and His Cavalry Trilogy - Jack Conroy, the Irish-American Left, andthe Radical Irish Legacy - Dublin to Bodega Bay: The Dark Side of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Juno and the Paycock' - 'Missouri Sequence': Brian Coffey's St. LouisYears - Migration and Memory: Irish Poetry in the U.S. - The Celtic Carnivalesque and Muriel Rukeyser's Irish Journey of Passion and Transformation - 'He's Irish, and He Broods Easy' - John McNulty and the Irish Cohort at 'The New Yorker - '

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11696-2
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 296
• Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés