Strange Country

This book identifies the origin the development and ultimately the success of the Irish literary tradition in English as one of the first literatures that is both national and colonial. It demonstrates the remarkable relationships between works as diverse as Joyce''s Dubliners and Bram Stoker''s Dracula and the worlds of the French Revolution and the Irish famine. Deane also shows how almost all the activities of Irish print culture--novels songs typefaces historical analyses poems--struggle within the limits imposed by its inheritance.