John Wilson Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3989681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Wilson Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Wilson |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER J W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Poison and romance
Oscar Wilde considered crime and sin no impediment to art or culture, as the case of the poisoner-artist-critic Thomas Wainewright (1794–1847) allowed him to demonstrate. English society of the time, as George Orwell famously declared, was as fascinated by poisoning as was Wilde. One of Orwell's cases was that of Edith Thompson who, along with her young lover, was convicted in 1922 in London of conspiracy to murder her husband whom it was alleged…
Irish novels, 1890-1940
INTRODUCTION: The Shock of the Old 1. 'A Deplorable Facility': Popular Fiction 2. 'When the Tide Turns': After the Victorians 3. A New Theology: Protestantism and the Novel 4. 'Their Patience Folly?' Catholicism and Fiction 5. Bad Blood: Sectarianism in the Novel 6. Studies in Green: The Condition of Ireland I 7. 'Society - spelt big': The Condition of Ireland II 8. Tiercel and Lure: Love and Marriage 9. Metier de Femme: New Woman Fiction 10. Fin…
The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel
The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, and authors. It provides critiques of individual w…
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists for decades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has come to be considered one of the most important English language poets in the world. This Companion gives an overview of his career…
Against Nature? Science and Oscar Wilde
Late and soon, W.B. Yeats identified science as a culprit standing in dangerous opposition to art and imagination. In 1897, in 'The Celtic Element in Literature,' he welcomed a widespread reaction 'against the rationalism of the eighteenth century' which was mingling 'with a reaction against the materialism of the nineteenth century,' a reaction he identified in literature as 'the symbolical movement.' In 1900, he told Shaw in debate that Shaw be…
The Measure of Paradise
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT VISUAL COMPOSITION in eighteenth-century have mostly been concerned with the influence on the of landscape painting and landscape gardening. Nonetheless, several critics have sought to redress the balance by claiming that the principles and practice of visual composition were generated from within the itself. C. V. Deane, for example, tries to demonstrate that methods of composition in landscape are analogous to, and often ident…
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Songs of Irish Rebellion
A Descriptive Nomenclature for the Study of Folklore Part II
John Greenway on Folksong - A Reply
Foster responds to John Greenway's essay on folk music (Australian Literary Studies, vol. 2, no. 3), taking issue with Greenway's 'extended arraignment of contemporary protest folksingers ... [and] his proposition that folksong surpasses what we might for the purposes of argument term sophisticated art
Irish novels, 1890-1940
INTRODUCTION: The Shock of the Old 1. 'A Deplorable Facility': Popular Fiction 2. 'When the Tide Turns': After the Victorians 3. A New Theology: Protestantism and the Novel 4. 'Their Patience Folly?' Catholicism and Fiction 5. Bad Blood: Sectarianism in the Novel 6. Studies in Green: The Condition of Ireland I 7. 'Society - spelt big': The Condition of Ireland II 8. Tiercel and Lure: Love and Marriage 9. Metier de Femme: New Woman Fiction 10. Fin…
Against Nature? Science and Oscar Wilde
Late and soon, W.B. Yeats identified science as a culprit standing in dangerous opposition to art and imagination. In 1897, in 'The Celtic Element in Literature,' he welcomed a widespread reaction 'against the rationalism of the eighteenth century' which was mingling 'with a reaction against the materialism of the nineteenth century,' a reaction he identified in literature as 'the symbolical movement.' In 1900, he told Shaw in debate that Shaw be…
A Descriptive Nomenclature for the Study of Folklore Part II
John Greenway on Folksong - A Reply
Foster responds to John Greenway's essay on folk music (Australian Literary Studies, vol. 2, no. 3), taking issue with Greenway's 'extended arraignment of contemporary protest folksingers ... [and] his proposition that folksong surpasses what we might for the purposes of argument term sophisticated art
A Descriptive Nomenclature for the Study of Folklore Part II
Songs of Irish Rebellion
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
The Measure of Paradise
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT VISUAL COMPOSITION in eighteenth-century have mostly been concerned with the influence on the of landscape painting and landscape gardening. Nonetheless, several critics have sought to redress the balance by claiming that the principles and practice of visual composition were generated from within the itself. C. V. Deane, for example, tries to demonstrate that methods of composition in landscape are analogous to, and often ident…
Against Nature? Science and Oscar Wilde
Late and soon, W.B. Yeats identified science as a culprit standing in dangerous opposition to art and imagination. In 1897, in 'The Celtic Element in Literature,' he welcomed a widespread reaction 'against the rationalism of the eighteenth century' which was mingling 'with a reaction against the materialism of the nineteenth century,' a reaction he identified in literature as 'the symbolical movement.' In 1900, he told Shaw in debate that Shaw be…
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists for decades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has come to be considered one of the most important English language poets in the world. This Companion gives an overview of his career…
The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel
The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, and authors. It provides critiques of individual w…
Irish novels, 1890-1940
INTRODUCTION: The Shock of the Old 1. 'A Deplorable Facility': Popular Fiction 2. 'When the Tide Turns': After the Victorians 3. A New Theology: Protestantism and the Novel 4. 'Their Patience Folly?' Catholicism and Fiction 5. Bad Blood: Sectarianism in the Novel 6. Studies in Green: The Condition of Ireland I 7. 'Society - spelt big': The Condition of Ireland II 8. Tiercel and Lure: Love and Marriage 9. Metier de Femme: New Woman Fiction 10. Fin…
Poison and romance
Oscar Wilde considered crime and sin no impediment to art or culture, as the case of the poisoner-artist-critic Thomas Wainewright (1794–1847) allowed him to demonstrate. English society of the time, as George Orwell famously declared, was as fascinated by poisoning as was Wilde. One of Orwell's cases was that of Edith Thompson who, along with her young lover, was convicted in 1922 in London of conspiracy to murder her husband whom it was alleged…
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