the Wood's Halfpence Controversy in Ireland - 1724-1725
This scholarly study contains critical new research as well as over 100 reprints of documents, broadsides, ballads that comprise the heart of the pamphlet controversy aroused by Wood's halfpenny scheme; the scheme which prompted Swift's Drapier's Letters. Many of these documents are of extreme rarity and are unrecorded by even the finest ......
This work deals with substance abuse among the incarcerated criminal population as well as the street criminal in a criminogenic neighborhood or setting. It is designed to be used by criminal justice professionals particularly those in corrections and intervention programs. Law enforcement program managers will also be able to develop programs ......
Contemporary Irish Poets and Migrations to America
This monograph studies the effects and consequences of the ceaseless travels of Irish poets in search of an audience and a paycheck. Tell argues these migrations have altered the very core of Irish poetry. Poets such as Muldoon, Mahon, Heaney, Montague and Boland are discussed in depth. The nature of the Irish poetic "voice" and the tonality of ......
The Rise of Personalism and the Reign of Amusement in 21st Century America
Dr.Foster(author of MELANCHOLY DUTY, Kluwer,1997)has undertaken a critique of American decadence and moral squalor. He argues that three basic cultural phenomena have conjoined to warp and degrade the moral and cultural landscape of the country. Treated together for purposes of critique these phenomena have intertwined: in the national pysche: ......
A Study of Early Christianity's Strategic Response to the World
This work examines early Christian self-definition and response to the world, according to the book of Acts. The author argues that early Christian self-definition and mission are intertwined. In other words, early Christian identity was at the same time the nascent faith's response to the world of paganism and Judaism. This book examines the ......
Aspects of Craft and Creation in the Critical Enterprise
A study of the craft and creation of criticism focusing on the techniques and vocabulary of the critical enterprise in literature. Great attention is paid to the necessity of procedure and the attendant questions of genre, structure, effect and tone.
This monograph by a distinguished Burke scholar discusses the British statesman's attempts to redefine his native Ireland as an integral part of Britain and, as a by blow, reduce the possibility of revolutionary insurgency a la the French Revolution. A novel use is made of parallel movements and ideas current in British India that fell under ......
Counter-Statements and Interventions about Irish Life and Literature
This collection by one of America's most distinguished scholars, biographer of Sean O'Casey, and emeritus scholar at Brown University, examines a number of key issues and arguments in Irish intellectual life: Yeats as a political thinker, modern Irish criticism, the treatment of Dublin in modern literature, the conscience of Ireland and the poetry ......
