Yeats: The Irish Literary Revival and the Politics of Print [Paperback]

Examines the relationship between Yeats, Irish literary nationalism and the publishing industry during the Irish Literary Revival in the late Nineteenth Century. It highlights the factors that shaped Yeats Irish literary nationalism and examines the way he continually modified his journalism and poetry to accommodate the often antagonistic perspectives of his Catholic, Protestant and Unionist editors and readers on contemporary political and cultural issues.

Yeats' texts are read not just as aesthetic artifacts but as documents of their time, caught in the complexities of Irish politics and literary nationalism and influenced by fiercely partisan editorial advocacy and agendas. In doing so it illustrates that the standards bequeathed by Yeats' Celtic nationalism can be radically revised. This books sheds new light on the Irish Literary Revival which was propagated through the periodical press.

By reinserting Yeats' texts into their environment of primary publication, and rereading them in the contexts for which they were first written, this study significantly enhances our understanding of that time. It casts an entirely new light on a text's meaning and significance, and poses radical challenges to the established canon.Introduction - September 1913: Composition, Reception, Interpretation, Misinterpretation
1 - The Dublin University Review : An Apprenticeship in Protestant Nationalism and Irish Literary Journalism
2 - Yeats and the United Ireland : Catholic Nationalism and Populist Culture
3 - Yeats Among the Imperialists: Celticism, and the Aesthetics of Yeatsian Unionism
4 - Bred Out of the Contagion of the Throng: The Fall of Parnell and the Irish Literary Revival
Conclusion
List of Works cited
Notes
Index