Strange country : modernity and nationhood in Irish writing since 1790

This book identifies the origin, the development and, ultimately, the success of the Irish literary tradition in English as one of the first literatures that is both national and colonial. It demonstrates the remarkable relationships between works as diverse as Joyce's Dubliners, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the worlds of the French Revolution and the Irish famine. Deane also shows how almost all the activities of Irish print culture novels, songs, typefaces, historical analyses, poems take place within the limits imposed by its inheritance.