Modernism and the Celtic Revival (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. The Celtic muse: anthropology, modernism and the Celtic Revival; 2. 'Fair equivalents': Yeats, Revivalism and the redemption of culture; 3. 'Synge-On-Aran': The Aran Islands and the subject of Revivalist ethnography; 4. Staging ethnography: Synge's The Playboy of the Western World; 5. 'A renegade in the ranks': Joyce's critique of Revivalism in the early fiction; 6. Joyce's modernism: anthropological fictions in Ulysses; Conclusion. After the Revival: 'Not even Main Street is safe'; Notes; Bibliography; Index.