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...position individual novels. points the way when needed, but its main task, and one that it fulfils admirably, is to provide thoughtful and stimulating commentary throughout the reader's journey. The study is well served by John Wilson Foster's deft introduction. Erudite yet accessible, Foster offers a historical overview of the journey ahead. It is a journey that takes us from the rise of the novel in English to the "busy and multifarious" condition of the contemporary Irish novel in a world in which "Multiculturalism is a burgeoning ethnic reality" (20).

The format of The Cambridge Companion is functional and satisfying. The Introduction is followed by a lengthy chronology featuring historical milestones and a generous selection of important novels from 1641 to 2005, the date of the IRA's promise to renounce armed struggle. Thereafter the commentary, which proceeds more or less chronologically, is divided into fourteen chapters, each of which comes with a guide to: further reading.. Aileen Douglas' first chapter, "The Novel before 1800," sets the scene with her investigation of early Protestant Irish writers' positioning of themselves and their readership,...

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