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Tables of Contents for From Burke to Beckett
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Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction
A Few Prefatory Remarks
Against Definitions
Weary of Theory or its Malpractice?
1
27
Romantic Union: Wordsworth, Ireland, and Reflections on the Revolution in France
28
406
Edmund Burke and the Imagination of History
Anglo-Irish Relations
The Birth of Ascendancy
49
45
Things as They Are
The Case of William Godwin
Pamphlet Literature c. 1800
94
29
Ascendancy and Cabal, 1800-1840
Yeats, Poetry and History
From William Parnell to the Revd John Mitchel
Old Eminence among the Homes of Learning
The Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society
Great Protestant Meetings, and Municipal Reform (1840)
Regional Tension, Mythical Romance
123
41
Mid-Century Perspectives
From Emancipation to Rebellion
Ubi Lapsus? Quid Feci? Sheridan Le Fanu as Subversive
Charles Lever: From Harry Lorrequer (1839) to Luttrell of Arran (1865)
W. E. Gladstone
164
42
Tribulations of the Intelligentsia
The Graves of Academe
From Lecky to Yeats via Max Weber
206
18
Varieties of Celticism
Theory as Artifice
Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold
Standish O'Grady
Art as Praxis in The Well of the Saints (1905)
A Line of Action
Vanishing Mediators
224
33
James Joyce: Bas no Beatha
`Eveline'
The Death of the Language
Nightmares of History
Finnegans Wake 13.04-13.19
Cliche Revividus!
257
45
Yeats and the Invention of Tradition
Anxious Certitude
`Poetry and Tradition' (1907)
Rebirth of a New Ascendancy
Constructing the Eighteenth Century
Oliver Goldsmith: Traditional Biography
The Anglo-Irish Literary Tradition
302
39
On Purgatory
Sources and Forms
`Ascendency with its Sense of Responsibility ...'
Metalanguage, Metadrama
The Fascist Charge [1985]
The Fascist Charge [1994]: The Relevance of Carl Schmitt
341
34
Infancy and History: Beckett, Bowen and Critical Theory
Against a Background
The Negro Anthology (1934)
Vestiges or Embers
Elizabeth Bowen's Infantilism
Inimitable Exemplar: Adorno on Beckett
375
59
From the Banks of the Danube: A Personal Report on the State of Literary History
434
19
Index
453