The Distance of Irish Modernism interrogates the paradox through which Irish modernist fictions have become containers for national and transnational histories

"Rethinking the relationship between form and history in Irish modernist writing and its aftermath, this book examines how critics have previously categorized t

"Rethinking the relationship between form and history in Irish modernist writing and its aftermath, this book examines how critics have previously categorized t

This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.

This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for the past