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A major reconsideration of Jonathan Swift's work undertaken by one of the most influential Swift scholars in the world ( as well as one of the most important editors in the world of Swiftian studies) The volume discusses biographical concerns(Swift's early family history, Stella's education)before launching into a thorough discussion of the controversies surrounding the satirical works (Tale of a Tub to A Modest Proposal). Real discusses the variety of challenges posed by Gulliver's Travels and explicates the historicist and axiological principles informing his criticism of Swift."...few contemporary commentators on Jonathan Swift have exerted as much influence as Hermann J. Real both for his own criticism and as the editor of the major journal in the field SWIFT STUDIES"Professor Robert Mahony, Catholic University of America

A study which interprets the works of Yeats, Synge, Beckett, Friel and McGuiness among others.

This text studies the effects and consequences of the ceaseless travels of Irish poets to America in search of an audience and a paycheck.

This work looks at the development of Anna Parnell's feminism and nationalism at the time of her brother, C.S. Parnell's imprisonment. It also covers the wider context of her writings and her emergence as a genuine woman's voice in the Irish political scene.