Reversionary Views: Some Counter Statements About Irish Life and Literature

by David Krause

This collection by one of America’s most distinguished scholars, biographer of Sean O’Casey, and emeritus scholar at Brown University, examines a number of key issues and arguments in Irish intellectual Yeats as a political thinker, modern Irish criticism, the treatment of Dublin in modern literature, the conscience of Ireland and the poetry of Synge and Shaw. Additionally there is an in depth examination of O’Casey’s work and his place in the canon.

434 pages, Hardcover

First published January 22, 2009