Terror and Irish modernism: the Gothic tradition from Burke to Beckett
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Main Author: Hansen, Jim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany SUNY Press c2009
Series:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
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Ch. 1. Gothic Double Binds, Or, Irish Terrorists Confront an Unholy Union -- Ch. 2. Wrong Marriage : Maturin and the Double Logic of Masculinity in the Unionist Gothic -- Ch. 3. Revolution Within : Wilde's Gothic and the Confines of Convention -- Ch. 4. Overcoming Allegory : Joyce's Ulysses and the Limits of the Irish Gothic -- Ch. 5. Engendering a Cartesian Gothic : Generic Form as History in Beckett's Fiction -- Epilogue : The Poetics of Fear : Gothic Inheritance at the End of Modernity
"Terror and Irish Modernism offers a synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction. Covering more than two centuries of literary production, Jim Hansen locates the root structure of modern Irish fiction in the masculine gender anxiety of one of the nineteenth century's most popular literary genres: the Gothic. Addressing both the decolonization of Ireland and the politics of literary form, Hansen sheds new light on canonical works by Maria Edgeworth, C. R. Maturin, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett by reading them all as part of the generic tradition of the Irish Gothic. He focuses in particular on how the Irish Gothic tradition translated the English Gothic's female-confinement narrative into a story about confined, feminized male protagonists. In reading this male gender-disorientation as the foundational condition of modern Irish political identity, Terror and Irish Modernism provides a thoroughly new genealogy of modern Irish fiction."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 209 p.)
ISBN:1438428219
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1441629742
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