Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. That sweet insinuating feminine voice: hysterics, peasants and the Celtic movement 2. Fair Erin as landlord: femininity and Anglo-Irish politics in 'The Countess Cathleen' 3. When the mob becomes a people: nationalism and occult theatre 4. In the bedroom of the big house: kindred, crisis and Anglo-Irish nationality 5. Desiring women: feminine sexuality and Irish nationality in 'A Woman Young and Old' 6. The rule of kindred: eugenics, Purgatory and Yeats's race philosophy Bibliography.