Wilde, Shaw, and Somerville and Ross
Irish Revivalists, Irish Britons, or both
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12302852 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Clare (0000-0001-9617-6294, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 91-103 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Irish Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-0882 • E-ISSN: 1469-9303 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09670882.2013.871851 |
| OpenAlex | W2031747663 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This article contends that Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, and Somerville and Ross should be considered part of the Irish Literary Revival. These writers all shared important artistic and philosophical aims with the acknowledged members of the Revival, and were, in fact, socially and professionally connected to some of them. Wilde, Shaw, and Somerville and Ross are usually “disqualified” from the movement, because, as Anglo-Irish Protestants writing mainly for English audiences, their work occasionally betrays what fervent nationalist critics regard as “the pathology of literary Unionism”. Wilde, Shaw, and Somerville were all Home Rulers, and even the unionist Ross was critical of narrow-gauge unionism, so these critics are clearly responding, not to the actual, subtle political beliefs of these writers but to the conscious – and even unconscious – “Britishness” evident in their work. Excluding these writers from studies of the Revival for their perceived Britishness is illogical, since the entire Revival was underwritten by (and, some would argue, undermined by) the cultural Britishness of its mainly Anglo-Irish Anglican participants
Art · Britishness · Irish · Literature · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Unconscious mind · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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