A history of the Irish novel

Derek Hand

earliest edition we have, 2011 Cambridge University Press, 2014 paperback 352 pages

"While some literary critics have traced the origins of the novel back to ancient Greece, the modern novel as an access to the narratives of bourgeois modernity emerged into Western culture in the late seventeenth century. The struggle of that class toward definition and the striving to articulate its character is central to the novel and the stories it tells. Its novelty is found in a formlessness that nonetheless a...

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A History of the Irish Novel paperback · 2014 · Cambridge University Press · 352 pages · 9781107674271
History of the Irish Novel edition · 2012 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511975615
History of the Irish Novel edition · 2011 · Cambridge University Press · 9781139045186
A history of the Irish novel edition · 2011 · Cambridge University Press · 352 pages · 9780521855402
History of the Irish Novel edition · 2011 · Cambridge University Press · 353 pages · 9781283052191
History of the Irish Novel edition · 2011 · Cambridge University Press · 9781139037082
History of the Irish Novel edition · 2011 · Cambridge University Press · 9781139041003

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