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- catalog abstract ""At the peak of his career, Charles Lever (1806-1872) was one of the most successful novelists in the English language, and the only mid-nineteenth century Irish novelist to vie with Charles Dickens in terms of popularity and income. Yet, within three decades of his death, his works had fallen into uninterrupted obscurity." "The light-heartedness of his early novels, The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer (1839) and Charles O'Malley - the Irish Dragoon (1841), brought condemnation from Nationalists who championed the serious and didactic purpose of literature in high-lighting the desperate plight of Ireland's indigenous population. It is in Lever's positive and thoughtful reaction to these criticisms that his profound contribution to Irish literature in English is to be found. Most of all, in his sensitive and ultimately pessimistic analysis of the role of the doomed Protestant Ascendancy." "In his study, Charles Lever: the Lost Victorian, S.P. Haddelsey charts the rise and fall of this gifted and much-maligned commentator on Irish affairs, and calls for a reappraisal of his position in the canon of Irish literature. Using a selection from the thirty novels and five volumes of essays, he argues that Lever's contribution is unique in its evolution from a Tory and non-separatist stance to the near-overt and despairing advocacy of Home Rule in his final and greatest novel, Lord Kilgobbin (1872)."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11716497.
- catalog coverage "Ireland In literature.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""At the peak of his career, Charles Lever (1806-1872) was one of the most successful novelists in the English language, and the only mid-nineteenth century Irish novelist to vie with Charles Dickens in terms of popularity and income. Yet, within three decades of his death, his works had fallen into uninterrupted obscurity." "The light-heartedness of his early novels, The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer (1839) and Charles O'Malley - the Irish Dragoon (1841), brought condemnation from Nationalists who championed the serious and didactic purpose of literature in high-lighting the desperate plight of Ireland's indigenous population. It is in Lever's positive and thoughtful reaction to these criticisms that his profound contribution to Irish literature in English is to be found. Most of all, in his sensitive and ultimately pessimistic analysis of the role of the doomed Protestant Ascendancy." "In his study, Charles Lever: the Lost Victorian, S.P. Haddelsey charts the rise and fall of this gifted and much-maligned commentator on Irish affairs, and calls for a reappraisal of his position in the canon of Irish literature. Using a selection from the thirty novels and five volumes of essays, he argues that Lever's contribution is unique in its evolution from a Tory and non-separatist stance to the near-overt and despairing advocacy of Home Rule in his final and greatest novel, Lord Kilgobbin (1872)."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "170 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Charles Lever.".
- catalog identifier "0861404203".
- catalog isFormatOf "Charles Lever.".
- catalog isPartOf "Ulster editions & monographs, 0954-3392 ; 8".
- catalog isPartOf "Ulster editions and monographs ; 8.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Gerrards Cross : Colin Smythe,".
- catalog relation "Charles Lever.".
- catalog spatial "Ireland In literature.".
- catalog subject "823.8 21".
- catalog subject "Lever, Charles James, 1806-1872 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR4885 .H33 2000".
- catalog title "Charles Lever : the lost Victorian / Stephen Haddelsey ; with a foreword by Benedict Kiely.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".