Heathcliff and the Great Hunger Studies in Irish Culture

"Heathcliff and the Great Hunger contains eight essays on Irish culture and society from the events leading up to the famine to the 1920s, with a detour to pay homage to Francis Hutcheson, the eighteenth-century Irish philosopher...The book is by no means a conventional or even unconventional literaray-cultural history of a 'dauntingly well-charted territory', but rather a series of essays that aims to intervene in debates, opening up some new unexplored areas and restating more fundamental principles which appear to have got lost in swathes of empirical detail and misleading, half-hearted theoretical excursions....it is worth the candle as a necessary series of Marxist interventions in debates which have all too often, as Eagleton forcefully claims, tried to sidestep stubborn material realities.Eagleton, Terry is the author of 'Heathcliff and the Great Hunger Studies in Irish Culture' with ISBN 9781859849323 and ISBN 1859849326.