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Ancestral Voices, O. Rauchbauer: Hardback: 1st Edition: Anglo-Irish Culture

Ancestral Voices, O. Rauchbauer: Hardback: 1st Edition: Anglo-Irish Culture

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Ancestral Voices: The Big House in Anglo-Irish Literature

Edited by Otoo Rauchbauer.


Published by George Olms Verlag, Germany, 1992. First Edition. Hardback cover with dustjacket (unclipped), 307 pages. Black & white illustrations.


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Overall very good condition, see photos. No names or writing.


The Big House motif has long been prominent in Anglo-Irish literature, but a comprehensive study of the subject is still awaited. Ancestral Voices brings together new essays on relevant work by Maria Edgeworth, Charles Lever, George Moore, Somerville and Ross, W.B. Yeats, Lennox Robinson, Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane, Aidan Higgins, Jennifer Johnston, John Banville and William Trevor. The book opens with two general surveys, 'The Big House and Irish History' and 'Continuity and Change in Irish Fiction', concluding with a consideration of the social and material culture on the Big House as it exists today. The thirteen contributors are drawn from Ireland, Germany, Austria and the United States. The editor, Otto Rauchbauer, teaches at the University of Vienna.
(Bindery shelves B1)
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