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Against the Despotism of Fact: Modernism, Capitalism, and the Irish Celt (Suny Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) (in English)
T. J. Boynton (Author)
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State University Of New York Press
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Against the Despotism of Fact: Modernism, Capitalism, and the Irish Celt (Suny Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) (in English) - T. J. Boynton
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Synopsis "Against the Despotism of Fact: Modernism, Capitalism, and the Irish Celt (Suny Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) (in English)"
First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.Emerging at a moment of escalating colonial conflict between England and Ireland, the figure of the Irish Celt enjoyed a long and varied career in both English and Irish literature from the late Victorian era to World War II. While this figure assumes many forms and functions, T. J. Boynton argues that he is consistently cast as inherently resistant to capitalism. Beginning with an innovative reassessment of Matthew Arnold’s The Study of Celtic Literature, from which the book also takes its title, Against the Despotism of Fact offers new readings of major works by writers such as Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. In their writing, Boynton argues, the Irish Celt served as a transnational vehicle of modernist experimentation geared toward interrogating the imperial, social, and pop-cultural dimensions of capitalist modernity. Making a significant contribution to Irish studies, modernist studies, and postcolonial studies, Against the Despotism of Fact draws attention to not only the prevalence but also the critical potential of this fraught figure.
