Richard T Rankin

Seamus Heaney's Regions

Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved both the disappearing agrarian ...

Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama (Irish Studies)

Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on rural culture and on the imagined communities he strives to create between readers, and script, actor...

Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland

Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal Northern Review. In Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland, Richard Ranki...

Gaston & Lincoln Sketches

The North Carolina Piedmont counties of Gaston and Lincoln are places of deep history, diverse natural environment, and remarkable culture. Beginning with the Native American original inhabitants and continuing through the Revolutionary and antebellum periods, the first five essays in Gaston & Linco...

Martin McDonagh: A Casebook (Casebooks on Modern Dramatists)

This book represents the first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights of the last decade. Credited with reinvigorating contemporary Irish drama, his dark, despairing comedies have been performed extensively both on Broadway and in th...

Ambivalent Churchmen and Evangelical Churchwomen: The Religion of the Episcopal Elite in North Carolina, 1800-1860

Richard Rankin probes the religious, intellectual, and social lives of North Carolina's antebellum elite to expose the dramatic effect of religious revival in the first half of the nineteenth century. Rankin uses family letters and church records to document an embrace of evangelism's emotionalism b...

Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings

The author of such works as Lamb, Cal, and Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty is one of Northern Ireland's leading-and most prolific-contemporary writers. Bringing together leading scholars from a full range of critical perspectives, this is a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on MacLave...

North Carolina Nature Writing: Four Centuries of Personal Narratives and Descriptions

Book annotation not available for this title.Title: North Carolina Nature WritingAuthor: Rankin, Richard (EDT)Publisher: John F Blair PubPublication Date: 1996/07/01Number of Pages: 272Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 96002640

Ambivalent Churchmen and Evangelical Churchwomen: The Religion of the Episcopal Elite in North Carolina, 1800-1860

North Carolina Nature Writing: Four Centuries of Personal Narratives and Descriptions

A New South Hunt Club: An Illustrated History of The Hilton Head Agriculture Society, 1917-1967