The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
Ellmann, Maud / White, Sian / Mahaffey, Vicki
Redefines Irish modernism as resistance to religious, sociopolitical and aesthetic orthodoxies
Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the Catholic Church that was gathering momentum in the same period. In religion as in culture, resistance...