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Article: Wilde the Irishman.(Review)
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- September 22, 1999
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Wilde the Irishman edited by Jerusha McCormack. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 205. $30.00.
An influential trend in nineteenth-century literary criticism of recent years sees the writings of Oscar Wilde in light of Irish tradition and culture--a critical turn notably furthered by Jerusha McCormack's Wilde the Irishman. While not the first writer to suggest a connection between the forms of Wilde's "Irishness" and the representations of those idioms in his work, McCormack brings together a collection of essays by Irish critics and cultural commentators that not only reclaim the late-Victorian writer for Ireland but situate his ...
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