Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism Conrad Kathryn
Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism Conrad Kathryn Since W. B. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the…
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Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism Conrad Kathryn
Since W. B. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and technological change. Yeats wrote in 1890 that the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula, the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given.
With chapters on naturalism, futurism, dynamite, gramophones, uncertainty, astronomy, automobiles, and more, this book showcases the far-reaching scope and complexity of Irish writers' engagement with innovations in science and technology.Taken together, the The collection spotlights authors ranging from James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O'Brien, and Samuel Beckett to less-studied writers like Emily Lawless, John Eglinton, Denis Johnston, and Lennox Robinson.