by
Horatio Sheafe Krans
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
This 1903 volume focuses on Irish novelists of the first half of the nineteenth century, more specifically, the extent to which their novels represent Irish national life and character. The book is divided into five chapters: "Irish Society," "The Novelists of the Gentry," "The Novelists of the Peasantry," "Types and Typical Incidents," and "Literary Estimate."