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O'Connor, Frank
Paul Delaney
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Frank O'ConnorIntroduction“O’Connor was, above all, a short story writer,” Maurice Sheehy proposed in the first extended bibliography of the writer’s ...
O’Casey, Sean
James Moran
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2015-07-28
Sean O’casey Introduction Sean O’Casey (b. 1880–d. 1964) is one of Ireland’s best-known playwrights, and any visitor to Dublin is likely to en...
O’Faoláin, Seán
Paul Delaney
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Seán O’faoláinIntroductionSeán O’Faoláin (b. 1900–d. 1991) was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Irish culture. A short-story writer...
Old English Literature
Elaine Treharne
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Old English Literature Introduction Old English literature covers the period from c. 600 to 1220, when the latest living versions of Old Engli...
Percy, Thomas
Ephraim Levinson, Dylan Carver
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Thomas PercyIntroductionThomas Percy (b. 1729–d. 1811) is primarily remembered for his seminal collection of ballads, Reliques of Ancient English Poet...
Picaresque
José María Pérez Fernández
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
PicaresqueIntroductionThe picaresque as a generic category originated in Spanish literature of the 16th and early 17th centuries. It then spread all o...
Piers Plowman
Andrew Galloway
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Piers PlowmanIntroductionIn its three (or four) versions, modern readers often find the allegorical, dream-vision alliterative poem Piers Plowman more...
Pope, Alexander
Tom Jones
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Alexander PopeIntroductionAlexander Pope (b. 21 May 1688–d. 30 May 1744) is the preeminent English poet of the early 18th century. He was commercially...
Post-War Irish Drama
Eva Urban
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Post-War Irish DramaIntroductionThe immediate post-war period from 1945 until the end of the 1950s was an important transitional period in Irish histo...
Post-war Irish Writing
Guy Woodward
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
Postwar Irish WritingIntroductionThough it had not suffered the devastation inflicted on much of the rest of Europe, the emerging southern Irish state...
Postmodernism
Tim Woods
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Postmodernism Introduction “Postmodernism” has been a notoriously difficult term to define, and it has had a complicated history across variou...
Pre-Raphaelites
Heather Bozant-Witcher
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2022-07-26
Pre-RaphaelitesIntroductionIn 1848 a group of poet-artists banded together to begin the Pre-Raphaelite movement in an attempt at artistic rebellion, m...
Prosody and Meter: Early Modern to 19th Century
Meredith Martin
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Prosody and Meter: Early Modern to 19th CenturyIntroductionBoth of the terms prosody and meter have shifting and contested definitions in the history ...
Prosody and Meter: Twentieth Century
Meredith Martin, Ben Glaser
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2021-04-21
Prosody and Meter: Twentieth CenturyIntroductionIf the 19th century was marked by competing systems, debates about how to write metrical poetry in Eng...
Psychoanalysis
David Punter
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Psychoanalysis Introduction Since the origins of psychoanalysis in the work of Sigmund Freud, its relations to literature and to literary crit...
Quincey, Thomas De
Julian North
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Thomas De Quincey Introduction Thomas De Quincey (b. 1785–d. 1859), autobiographer and essayist, is best known for Confessions of an English O...
Ralegh (Raleigh), Sir Walter
Carlo M. Bajetta
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh)IntroductionAgnes Latham once wrote that everything Ralegh (b. 1554–d. 1618) did “seems to have been tainted by a curious i...
Ramsay, Allan and Robert Fergusson
Rhona Brown
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson Introduction Allan Ramsay (b. 1684–d. 1758) was born in Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He attended Crawfo...
Richardson, Samuel
Thomas Keymer
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Samuel RichardsonIntroductionWith his virtuoso handling of epistolary narration, and the psychological and circumstantial realism made possible by his...
Rise of the Novel in Britain, 1660–1780, The
Nicholas Seager
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
The Rise of the Novel in Britain, 1660–1780IntroductionEvery premise of the phrase “the rise of the novel” has been assailed in recent years. “The ris...
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