JOHN FOSTER is an energy economist with more than 40 years' experience in policy and economic issues relating to infrastructure and energy. While holding positions with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, Petro-Canada and BP group, he witnessed first-hand the effects of oil industry conflicts politically, economically and socially in more than 30 countries around the world. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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Anyone who deals with the Irish Revival in the future is going to have to come to terms with this vast, cogent, and important work.

Journal of Modern Literature

Another fine volume in the Syracuse Irish Studies series. . . . Foster is exhaustive in examining every conceivable type of fiction produced in this artistically rich period—a valuable contribution.

The Irish Literary Supplement

This superb work, which deals with the seriously neglected body of Irish prose written from approximately 1880 to 1920, exhibits massive research presented in a charming prose style. Not merely a chronological study, the work places this "changeling art" in context by providing an overview of Irish literature that ranges from the early Irish sagas to recent modern Irish writing. The work can be read on many levels; accessible to the student, it also introduces many original and important themes that scholars will want to consider. Highly recommended as the definitive book on the subject.

Library Journal

A work of intelligent criticism. . . . Fills more gaps in our sources than most commentators have ever cared to acknowledge.

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