A History of the Irish Novel by Derek Hand HARDBACK 9780521855402

A History of the Irish Novel\nby Derek Hand\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Derek Hand\nTitle: A History of the Irish Novel\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2011\nISBN-13: 9780521855402\nISBN-10: 0521855403\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nDerek Hand''s A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and John McGahern have demonstrated the extraordinary intellectual range, thematic complexity and stylistic innovation of Irish fiction. Derek Hand provides a remarkably detailed picture of the Irish n.