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Author:

Rubenstein, Michael, 1971-

Title:

Public works : infrastructure, Irish modernism, and the postcolonial / Michael Rubenstein.

Publisher:

University of Notre Dame Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

viii, 261 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Public utilities in literature.
Infrastructure (Economics) in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--Ireland.
Postcolonialism in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The postcolonial comedy of development: public works and Irish modernism -- Aquacity: plumbing consciousness in Joyce's Dublin -- A fountain of nationality: haunted infrastructure in Flann O'Brien's The third policeman -- Electrifiction, or dramatizing power: the Shannon scheme, the free state, and Denis Johnston's The moon in the yellow river -- Other rough beasts: comparative postcolonialism and the dream of infrastructure.

ISBN:

0268040303 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268040307 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)644018249

LCCN:

2010024336

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)