Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions : : Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964 / / Susan Cannon Harris.
Reveals the untold story of Irish drama’s engagement with modernity’s sexual and social revolutionsThe first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campaign for gender equality and sexual freedom. Irish Dram...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance : ECSMDP
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 DESIRING WOMEN: IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS, NEW WOMEN AND QUEER SOCIALISM, 1892–1894
- 2 ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: UTOPIAN DESIRES, DESIGNS AND DEFERRALS IN MAN AND SUPERMAN AND JOHN BULL’S OTHER ISLAND
- 3 WE’LL KEEP THE RED FLAG FLYING HERE: SYNDICALISM, JIM LARKIN AND IRISH MASCULINITY AT THE ABBEY THEATRE, 1911–1919
- 4 MOBILISING MAURYA: J. M. SYNGE, BERTOLT BRECHT AND THE REVOLUTIONARY MOTHER
- 5 THE FLAMING SUNFLOWER: THE SOVIET UNION AND SEAN O’CASEY’S POST-REALISM
- EPILOGUE: WHAT THE IRISH LEFT – SEAN O’CASEY, SAMUEL BECKETT AND LORRAINE HANSBERRY’S THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN’S WINDOW
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX