Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: [F]ull of personified averages: Progress in the Victorian and Edwardian Era Chapter Two: Literatures of Progress Chapter Three: Progress as Material Gain: The Bourgeois Peasant as Invented Tradition in The Countess Cathleen, Cathleen ni Houlihan, and The Land of Heart's Desire Chapter Four: Recovering the Feminized Other: Psychological Androgyny in The King's Threshold, On Baile's Strand, and Deirdre Chapter Five: [N]ice little playwrights, making pretty little plays: Yeats, Irish Identity, and the Critical Response Notes Bibliography Index