A learned and comprehensive work covering a wide range of major and minor figures, Fiction of the Irish Revival remains a valuable and standard sourcebook to the scholarship on late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Irish literature and culture.

JOHN FOSTER is an energy economist with more than 40 years' experience in policy and economic issues relating to infrastructure and energy. While holding positions with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, Petro-Canada and BP group, he witnessed first-hand the effects of oil industry conflicts politically, economically and socially in more than 30 countries around the world. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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Anyone who deals with the Irish Revival in the future is going to have to come to terms with this vast, cogent, and important work.

Journal of Modern Literature

A work of intelligent criticism.... Fills more gaps in our sources than most commentators have ever cared to acknowledge.

Books Ireland

Putting it plainly, Foster's book is the most comprehensive, original, and engrossing treatment of its subject that I have seen in a long time.... No one who lectures or writes on modern Irish literature can afford to ignore it.

Patrick A. McCarthy, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

Another fine volume in the Syracuse Irish studies series.... Foster is exhaustive in examining every conceivable type of fiction produced in this artistically rich period.

Alexander G. Gonzalez, The Irish Literary Supplement

An ambitious, even an audacious book.... Charting new territory.

Philip O'Leary, Modern Fiction Studies