'The Last September is about the ambivalence of the Anglo-Irish as Ireland was about to become an independent state.' Discuss.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:07:57
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 11 pages (3151 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 11 pages (3151 words)
Outline
In this paper I will attempt to define why the Anglo-Irish appeared to have such ambivalence towards the changes going on in the country around them. I will try to show that they did this out of fear; out of fear of themselves and of breaking away from the past, a past in which they perceived that their only security could come from. I will do this by using Bowen's own analogy of the …
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…by Victoria Glendinning.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Big House. Published by Cork University Press, 1940.
Bowen, Elizabeth. Coming to London. Article taken from The London Magazine 1956, included in Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century - edited by David Pierce. Published by Cork University Press, 2000.
Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland. Published by Vintage, 1996.
Fitch E., Lynette. Privileged or Imprisoned in the Anglo-Irish Big House? Published on the Internet for the Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama Ma Program, University College Dublin, 1998.
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