{"product_id":"9781802077926-literary-afterlives-of-roger-casemen","title":"The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899–2016","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis bookexplores the literary afterlives of one of Ireland’s most enigmatic, shape-shiftingand controversial sons, Roger Casement. Casement can be found in the most curious of places:from the imperial horrors of \u003ci\u003eHeart ofDarkness\u003c\/i\u003e (1899) to the gay club culture of 1980s London in AlanHollinghurst’s \u003ci\u003eThe Swimming-Pool Library\u003c\/i\u003e(1998);\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eThis bookexplores the literary afterlives of one of Ireland’s most enigmatic, shape-shiftingand controversial sons, Roger Casement. Aseminal human rights activist, a key figure in the struggle for Irishindependence, a traitor to British imperialism and an enthusiastic recorder ofa sexual life lived in the shadows: through Casement, writers have been able to commune and negotiate with a difficult past. Casement can be found in the most curious of places:from the imperial horrors of \u003ci\u003eHeart ofDarkness\u003c\/i\u003e (1899) to the gay club culture of 1980s London in AlanHollinghurst’s \u003ci\u003eThe Swimming-Pool Library\u003c\/i\u003e(1998); from George Bernard Shaw’s play \u003ci\u003eSaintJoan\u003c\/i\u003e (1923) to a love affair between spies in Elizabeth Bowen’s \u003ci\u003eThe Heat of the Day \u003c\/i\u003e(1948); from thepost-Easter Rising elegies of Eva Gore-Booth and Alice Milligan to thebeguiling, opaque poetry of Medbh McGuckian. Drawing upon a variety of literary and cultural texts,alongside significant archival research, this book establishes dialoguesbetween modernist and contemporary works to argue that Casement’s ghost opens a fault line in our uneasy engagement with the cross-currents between history and memory, reality and fiction. It positionsCasement as a vital and fascinating figure in the compromised and contradictory terrainof Anglo-Irish history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40903817101409,"sku":"9781802077926","price":30.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/82bda86e3d909398dbeeb60f2084b3e2.jpg?v=1689230933","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781802077926-literary-afterlives-of-roger-casemen","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}