Irish Gothics [electronic resource] : Genres, Forms, Modes, and Traditions, 1760-1890 /
Morin, Christina.author.
Gillespie, Niall.author.
Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what constitutes this body of literature remains far from settled. This collection of essays explores the rich complexities of the literary gothic in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: De-Limiting the Irish Gothic; 1 Theorizing 'Gothic' in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; 2 The Irish Protestant Imaginary: the Cultural Contexts for the Gothic Chapbooks Published by Bennett Dugdale, 1800-5; 3 Irish Jacobin Gothic, c. 1796-1825; 4 Suffering Rebellion: Irish Gothic Fiction, 1799-1830; 5 The Gothicization of Irish Folklore; 6 Maturin's Catholic Heirs: Expanding the Limitsof Irish Gothic; 7 J. S. Le Fanu, Gothic, and the Irish Periodical
8 'Whom We Name Not': The House by the Churchyard and its Annotation9 Muscling Up: Bram Stoker and Irish Masculinity in The Snake's Pass; 10 'The Old Far West and the New': Bram Stoker, Race, and Manifest Destiny; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what constitutes this body of literature remains far from settled. This collection of essays explores the rich complexities of the literary gothic in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Fiction.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.