Chapter 3 J. M. Synge, Authenticity, and the Regional

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements iv
4. Introduction: Regional Modernisms 1
5. Chapter 1 ‘that trouble’: Regional Modernism and ‘little magazines’ 22
6. Chapter 2 The Regional Modernism of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce 44
7. Chapter 3 J. M. Synge, Authenticity, and the Regional 65
8. Chapter 4 Pound, Yeats, and the Regional Repertory Theatres 83
9. Chapter 5 Capturing the Scale of Fiction at Mid-Century 104
10. Chapter 6 Regionalism and Modernity: The Case of Leo Walmsley 124
11. Chapter 7 Hugh MacDiarmid’s Modernisms: Synthetic Scots and the Spectre of Robert Burns 142
12. Chapter 8 Welsh Modernist Poetry: Dylan Thomas, David Jones, and Lynette Roberts 160
13. Chapter 9 Between the Islands: Michael McLaverty, Late Modernism, and the Insular Turn 184
14. Chapter 10 The Idea of North: Basil Bunting and Regional Modernism 200
15. Select Bibliography 222
16. Index 226