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- The Revival in Irish Literature and Culture
- Cambridge Themes in Irish Literature and Culture
- The Revival in Irish Literature and Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Revivalism and the Call for Renewal
- Part II The Politics of the Irish Revival
- Part III Mythologies of the Literary Revival
- Chapter 10 Revival in the West
- Chapter 11 Synge, Modernity, and the Myth of Revival
- Chapter 12 “In Search of a Nation and a Language”
- Chapter 13 Big House Revivals
- Part IV Revivalist Futures
- Index
Chapter 13 - Big House Revivals
from Part III - Mythologies of the Literary Revival
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 September 2025
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Book contents
- The Revival in Irish Literature and Culture
- Cambridge Themes in Irish Literature and Culture
- The Revival in Irish Literature and Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Revivalism and the Call for Renewal
- Part II The Politics of the Irish Revival
- Part III Mythologies of the Literary Revival
- Chapter 10 Revival in the West
- Chapter 11 Synge, Modernity, and the Myth of Revival
- Chapter 12 “In Search of a Nation and a Language”
- Chapter 13 Big House Revivals
- Part IV Revivalist Futures
- Index
Summary
Heather Ingman, in her chapter, explores W. B. Yeats’s legacy in the construction of the myth surrounding the Big House, the country estates that served as a potent symbol of Anglo-Irish Ascendancy rule in Ireland. The Big House novel, which rose to prominence in the late eighteenth century, created over the ensuing two hundred years new grounds of recognition for the iconic Georgian structures that presided over vast demesnes until the Land Wars and the War of Independence altered forever the Anglo-Irish landscape. Ingman shows how the Yeatsian myth of the Big House was undermined in novels by, among others, Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane, Jennifer Johnston, William Trevor, and John Banville. But even in the process of dismantling the myth, these novels retained a small portion of the Big House’s cultural value because its symbolic value could be taken for granted, if only to transform it.
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- The Revival in Irish Literature and Culture , pp. 261 - 278Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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