Research Catalog

Title

Irish Gothics : genres, forms, modes, and traditions, 1760-1890 / edited by Christina Morin, University of Limerick, Ireland and Niall Gillespie, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Morin, Christina
• Gillespie, Niall

Description

xi, 215 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Variously described as a 'canon', 'tradition', 'genre', 'form', 'mode', and 'register', Irish gothic literature suffers from a fundamental terminological confusion, and the debate over exactly which term best applies has been both heated and, ultimately, inconclusive in the past thirty years. The dominant theorization of Irish gothic literature to emerge in late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century scholarship has been driven by psychoanalytic readings of the literary gothic in Ireland as the fictional representation of the repressed fears and anxieties of the minority Anglo-Irish population. Such definitions of Irish gothic literature, however, both overlook the gothic literary output of authors who were not members of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy and suggest that gothic writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was confined solely to fiction. This collection of essays challenges these assumptions, exploring the rich and varied gothic literary production of a large, multicultural selection of authors working across the genres in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland"--

Subjects

• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance
• Psychology and literature
• English fiction > Irish authors > History and criticism
• Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > Ireland > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

ntroduction: De-limiting the Irish Gothic / Christina Morin and Niall Gillespie -- 1. Theorizing 'Gothic' in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Christina Morin -- 2. The Irish Protestant Gothic Imaginary: The Cultural Contexts for the Gothic Chapbooks, published by Bennett Dugdale, 1800-5 / Diane Long Hoeveler -- 3. Irish Jacobin Gothic, c. 1796-1825 / Niall Gillespie -- 4. Suffering Rebellion: Irish Gothic Fiction, 1799-1830 / Jim Shanahan -- 5. The Gothicization of Irish Folklore / Anne Markey -- 6. Maturin's Catholic Heirs: Expanding the Limits of Irish Gothic / Richard Haslam -- 7. J.S. Le Fanu, Gothic, and the Irish Periodical / Elizabeth Tilley -- 8. 'Whom We Name Not': The House by the Churchyard and its Annotation / W.J. Mc Cormack -- 9. Muscling Up: Bram Stoker and Irish Masculinity in The Snake's Pass / Jarlath Killeen -- 10. 'The Old Far West and the New': Bram Stoker, Race, and Manifest Destiny / Luke Gibbons.

Call Number

JFD 14-3813

ISBN

• 9781137366641 (hardback)
• 1137366648 (hardback)

LCCN

2014018637

OCLC

870285587

Title

Irish Gothics : genres, forms, modes, and traditions, 1760-1890 / edited by Christina Morin, University of Limerick, Ireland and Niall Gillespie, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Morin, Christina, editor.

Gillespie, Niall, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 14-3813