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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 Ar

Author

Stephen Haddelsey

Publisher

Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe ; New York: Distributed in North America by Oxford University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780861404209

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities