Product Description

11 years in the making, featuring the work of over 700 individual writers and harnessing the skills and expertise of dozens of scholars, The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Volumes IV and V is without doubt one the most important publishing events in Ireland for many years. The most comprehensive corpus of Irish women's writing ever published. A lifelong resource, each encounter prompting fresh insights and new discoveries Features the work of over nine hundred familiar and undiscovered or unappreciated writers. Many of the sources are previously unpublished. Harnesses the skills and expertise of dozens of scholars and specialists. Interdisciplinary approach allows insight into areas of the Irish experience beyond the reader's area of interest. Biographies and bibliographies of writers facilitate further reading and research. Fully indexed and cross-referenced with earlier volumes, including index to first lines of poetry. Spans a period from 600 to the end of the end of the Twentieth Century. Many Irish texts appear in translation for the first time allowing unprecedented access to rare texts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #531404 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-09
• Format: Box set
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Hardcover
• 3200 pages

Review
'From medieval spells to contemporary spellings, from eighteenth-century debates over women's education to current controversies about female sexuality, these rich and brilliant volumes are ambitiously abundant in their representation of Irish women's lives, works, and ways. It's impossible to imagine a more scrupulous, wide-ranging set of sources for students, scholars, and general readers who want to investigate the energetically flourishing literary and political traditions that have been shaped by (and shape) Ireland's women.' Sandra M. Gilbert, Professor of English, University of California, Davis 'These new volumes are a mighty achievement: the texts and contexts of more than a thousand years of Irish women's writing brilliantly, abundantly presented and comprehended. The editors have redefined the curriculum of studies.' Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate 'I have never seen an anthology which has so drastically extended one's frame of reference on its theme. It goes far beyond the root meaning of an 'anthology' - a literary garland - and instead gives us nothing less than the materials for a cultural history of women in Ireland. It is a unique piece of work and cannot fail to become a landmark of learning worldwide. Worth the wait; every bit of it.' Joep Leerssen, Professor of Modern European Literature, University of Amsterdam 'A monumental and heroic work of collective scholarship that will transform our understanding of the Irish literary tradition. Yes she said yes yes.' Elaine Showalter, Professor of English, Princeton University 'The literary event of the year . . .' Caroline Walshe, Literary Editor, Irish Times