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... politics were cosmopolitan , not nationalist : for he also called the ' Irish rabblement ' the most belated race in Europe - Europe's afterthought . He hated violence as much as feudalism , and so could never be a political ...
... politics were cosmopolitan , not nationalist : for he also called the ' Irish rabblement ' the most belated race in Europe - Europe's afterthought . He hated violence as much as feudalism , and so could never be a political ...
Page 84
... political lieutenant of Charles Stewart Parnell , the leader of the Irish MPs in Gladstone's Parliament . This political affiliation , to the haughty Anglo - Irishman who was betrayed and assailed by a mob of his ex - followers when he ...
... political lieutenant of Charles Stewart Parnell , the leader of the Irish MPs in Gladstone's Parliament . This political affiliation , to the haughty Anglo - Irishman who was betrayed and assailed by a mob of his ex - followers when he ...
Page 98
... political and crudely moralist contexts , and taken into the protective custody of literary critics and scholars . They did not treat it as a threat to the British empire but as a myth - anti - myth , as a gigantic parody of life and ...
... political and crudely moralist contexts , and taken into the protective custody of literary critics and scholars . They did not treat it as a threat to the British empire but as a myth - anti - myth , as a gigantic parody of life and ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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