Facts and Fictions of Anglo-Irishness

The writer, essayist, biographer, and diplomat Sir Shane Leslie (1885-1971) is a remarkable, although little known and even less researched personality of Anglo-Irish culture. Although his many publications rarely reached a second edition, they are highly valued as cultural-historical documents. His novel Doomsland (1923) has received critical praise as 'a bildungsroman of exceptional interest which has been most unfairly neglected.' This monograph aims to compensate for this unjustified neglect by trying to rediscover Leslie through his fictional and essayistic work. The research for this thesis included a visit to Castle Leslie in Ireland, Co. Monaghan, explorations of the family archives in Dublin and Belfast, and, as well as interviews with the writer's son, Sir John Leslie.

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The Author: Laura Balomiri was born in 1976 in Romania and studied English Literature, Journalism, German Philology and History of Art at the University of Vienna, Austria. She graduated from the department of English and American Studies with this study of Shane Leslie's life and work. Specialising on twentieth-century literature, she is currently writing her doctoral dissertation, a comparative study of Franz Kafka's and Salman Rushdie's fantastic fiction, at the Universities of Vienna, Austria, and Exeter, UK.

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Contents: The Anglo-Irish issue illuminated by Leslie's essays Literary analyses of Leslie's novels The Oppidan, Doomsland, The Cantab, and The Anglo-Catholic Shane Leslie - biographical sketch Historical-cultural background of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Ireland and the UK.