...The conclusion offers a consideration of some broader theoretical issues raised within the book. It argues that the resurgence may be understood not only in terms of the particular political context of contemporary England but also as a reconciliation of the two earlier revivals. It proposes...

... on tyranny - in the context of the intellectual foment of the classical revival and the dramatic social changes afoot in Europe in the twelfth century. In so doing, it offers students and researchers of this period a novel investigation of how Stoicism comprises a ‘third way’ for medieval political...

...This book explores at length the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These parallel but mostly independent movements include writers such as Charles Péguy, Paul Claudel, J. K. Huysmans, Gerard Manley Hopkins, G. K. Chesterton...

...This chapter begins with a defining stage moment from the 1990s that translated the sense of danger into an image of a devastated world. It occurred during Stephen Daldry's revival of J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls — one of the key productions of the decade. Daldry's...

... Holinger Dorothy P revival uncanny Kennicott Philip Laplanche Jean mortality Aeneid intertextuality Odyssey The Dead Joyce coup de théâtre Electra Phelan Peggy Kessler David mishearings mourning music Wilson Harry Robert Barthes Roland Camera Lucida Maguire Laurie photographic Beckett...

...This chapter explores Shakespeare’s Hamlet thematically and intertextually in relation to grief and mourning, especially the role of the dead father, thinking about textual revivals, the magic, mercurial text reanimated by each new performance, reading, rewriting or intertexual echo. In Hamlet...

... texts. Their presentation of the English case contributes to debates about English identity and calls for a rethinking of concepts such as revival, indigeneity and tradition....

...This chapter examines the ‘British poetry revival’ that Sinclair was engaged in when he wrote and published Lud Heat and Suicide Bridge. It considers the importance of William Blake to Suicide Bridge, and examines the factors that were used...

...-culture and the British Poetry Revival; London's underground histories; the rise and fall of Thatcherism; and Sinclair's writing about Britain under New Labour and Sinclair's connection to other writers and artists, such as J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock and Marc Atkins. The book contributes...

... biographers. For some, under the Celtic Revival, Livingstone provided a way to increase the prestige of the Gàidhealtachd, while for others he symbolised the union of Highland and Lowland. For most, however, Livingstone served an even broader purpose: to assert Scottish national consciousness within...

...The twentieth-century Pentecost, the Welsh Revival of 1904–5, was the last flourish of mass resistance to the triumph of the historicist perspective. For a brief moment, the new rules of historical and psychological discourse were rent asunder. Their core assumptions, the narrative exclusion...

...Independent female evangelism thrived during the 1860s, a period of sustained evangelical activity promoting religious revival. This chapter traces the transatlantic roots of revivalism, the prominence of women within it, and the emergence of a group of female evangelists who developed professional...

...The introduction explores the Italians’ love–hate relationship with the idea of the Baroque, which evoked both a shameful past in which the peninsula was divided and occupied, and a style hailed as a precursor of modernism. Although many studies have analysed the Baroque revival in the German...

...American literature and Irish culture, 1910-1955: the politics of enchantment discusses how and why American modernist writers turned to Ireland at various stages during their careers. By placing events such as the Celtic Revival and the Easter Rising at the centre...

...The chapter considers the history of women in independent Ireland, up to the period of the emergence of Edna O’Brien in the early 1960s. It explores the representation of women in modern Irish literature since the time of W. B. Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival, outlining the rejection...

... unreality. The efforts of W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Douglas Hyde and J. M. Synge from the late 1880s onwards had done much to revive American writers’ interest in Celtic culture – and to establish a Celtic ideal that influenced different social groups. This chapter therefore discusses the cultural...

... freedom in the ‘Irish Ireland’ or ‘Revival’ period offers us an opportunity to shift the focus from Irish writers and their glorification of the west of Ireland as a refuge from the horrors of rapidly advancing capitalism and materialism. This chapter looks at what this glorification was defined...

... on unpublished archival material, this chapter explores the connection between Rakhau’s Spanish studies and his later works, contextualizing them within the pan-European Moorish Revival as well as Russia’s Orientalizing architecture. Academy of Arts St Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts Caucasus Crimea...

... speakers Irish Travellers Flynn Hannah Gaelic Revival Keane Sarah McAdam Agnes Cox Frances Keogh Ellen Moylette Bridget Hillis Margaret Great Famine violence family O’Leary Hannah nolle prosequi religious affiliation marriage O’Brien Jane Limerick Rural Survey 1964 Moynihan Mary...

... of potential annihilation but also of potential consolidation, and as a critique of modernity and a celebration of an intrinsically Italian road to modernity. Unearthing the protean and contradictory legacy of the Baroque in modern Italy shows that its revivals and appropriations were not repositories of exact...