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Celticism

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Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature: Late Victorian into Modern 1880 - 1920

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This chapter argus that any convincing account of late Victorian Celticism must register its diversity. From one perspective Celticism is a product of English epistemological mastery and political domination, an internal form of Orientalism in which the feminine, superstitious and poetic Celt could...

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Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2016
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