John Wilson Foster

Auteur de The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel

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A propos de l'auteur

Professor John Wilson Foster is in the Department of English, University of British Columbia, Canada. He has written 14 books including Irish Novels 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction (Oxford University Press 2008), the Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (Cambridge University Press afficher plus 2006) and Colonial Consequences: Essays in Irish Literature and Culture (1991). afficher moins

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Œuvres de John Wilson Foster

Populaires Récent

The Titanic Reader (2000) — Directeur de publication — 19 exemplaires

The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (2006) 19 exemplaires

Pilgrims of the Air (2014) 17 exemplaires

Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History (1997) — Senior editor — 12 exemplaires

Irish Novels 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction (2008) 9 exemplaires

Recoveries: Neglected Episodes in Irish Cultural History 1860-1912 (2002) 6 exemplaires

The idea of the Union: Statements and critiques in support of the union of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (1995) 5 exemplaires

The Achievement of Seamus Heaney (1995) 5 exemplaires

Fictions of the Irish Literary revival : a changeling art (1993) 4 exemplaires

Forces and themes in Ulster fiction (1974) 4 exemplaires

Colonial Consequences: Essays in Irish Literature and Culture (1991) 4 exemplaires

"Titanic Complex": A Cultural Manifest (1997) 2 exemplaires

Between Shadows: Modern Irish Writing and Culture (2009) 2 exemplaires

Titanic: The Sceptre of Power (2011) 1 exemplaire

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The Nabob A Tale of Ninety - Eight (2006) — Notes & afterword, quelques éditions — 7 exemplaires

Words of the grey wind: words and epiphany in Ulster (2009) — Avant-propos — 5 exemplaires

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Autres noms: Foster, Jack
Date de naissance: 1930
Sexe: male
Nationalité: Ireland
Lieu de naissance: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Lieux de résidence: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Eugene, Oregon, USA
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Portaferry, Northern Ireland, UK

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Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger… par John Wilson Foster

A well written account of the natural history and unnatural demise of the passenger pigeon. I wish some of the sources were more clearly delineated, but with that caveat, this is a good read.

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JBD1 | Jun 4, 2023 |

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