Vachel Lindsay introduced a genuinely new rhythm into American poetry and was America’s first real folk poet—superior to Sandburg and articulating a sense of awe, loss and resentment at the passing of the older freedoms and dignities of pre industrial America. His topics (Negro revivals, Salvation Army meetings, Chautauqua gatherings) would seem to be utterly dated---yet Lindsay was a modernist in spite of himself and influenced greatly later poets and writers as dis separate as Hart Crane, Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Frost ,James T Farrell and William Faulkner as well as Jack Kerouac.

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.

Biography with writings, poems and translations of James Keegan(1859-1894). Keegan was a supporter(along with Douglas Hyde) of the Irish Gaelic League and was part of the early Irish Renaissance in creative writing and national consciousness. Keegan, whilst a priest, also wrote for national journals under a variety of pseudonyms and with an uncanny ability to favete linguis as far as his superiors were concerned. Little is known of Keegan and this is the first full study of his brief but active career and his literary production. Keegan worked as an parish priest in Ireland and in the U.S.

This research work deals with subjects of great interest in current criticism---the impact of the New Historicist studies on the interpretation of American literary naturalism, and the issue of the possible persistence of the movement in contemporary fiction. Other essays deal with Norris, Crane and Dreiser who have up to now been considered canonical figures within literary naturalism while Wharton and Chopin are discussed as recent and welcome additions to the discussion of this movement and American literature in general.

This late 19th century novel was one of the first to deal with crime and punishment in Ireland, as well as a host of other issues from a feminist as well as socially progressive point of view. Long out of print, Professor Murphy makes the case for its inclusion in the canon of Irish literature via a superbly written Introduction and an extensive series of notes and text discussions. Full text reproduced.

Irish criticism of Jonathan Swift's work during his lifetime contributed to the formation of a uniquely Irish public sphere of letters- a public for whom the literary artist stood as the symbol and representative in the absence of empowered political institutions. This spirit was marked in Kathleen Williams' collection of eighteenth century criticism of Swift's work, entitled JONATHAN SWIFT: The Critical Heritage (Routledge, 1970).

This two-volume work is an edited version of O’Grady’s great achievements: “History of Ireland: The Heroic Period,” “History of Ireland: Cuculain and His Contemporaries” and “A History of Ireland: Critical and Philosophical.” Professor McNamara has edited the works not only in order to provide the scholarly reader with insights into O’Grady’s subjects and methods but also to help restore the luster due to the progenitor of the Irish Revival (in the opinion of W.B. Yeats and many others).

W.J.McCormack (b.1947) Professor of English at Goldsmiths College, University of London, is the author of many studies of Irish literature and culture, including SHERIDAN LEFANU AND VICTORIAN IRELAND(1978) ,ASCENDANCY AND TRADITION(1985); Recent publications include THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO MODERN IRISH CULTURE (1999) and THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY(2000) a biography of J.M. Synge. He is also an acclaimed poet, writing under the name of Hugh Maxton (THE ENGRAVED PASSION: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1970-1991) PUBLISHED IN 1992.

What were the links between propaganda, especially popular music and literature, and the British public's view of the front line soldier during the Great War? And when did that view dramatically alter to reflect the harsh realities, the tragedy and the epocal waste of life, the social dislocation, the sheer futility of the struggle, and who was responsible for the shift and its literary aftermath? These are some of the questions addressed by Professor McLure's monograph.

This monograph (translated from French) is the first attempt to reconcile Camus’s deep-seated identity as an Algerian and his ideas of a multiconfessional, multicultural, non-colonial Algeria. The authors discuss the identity of Camus, his philosophy and politics, including his sexual politics, in light of a southern Mediterranean cultural nexus that stamped Camus as an Algerian rather than French (pied-noir). Camus’s cosmopolitan and radical Algiers of the 30’s is described vibrantly reflecting his extraordinary understanding of the people and landscape that evolved from his journalism.