Terror and Irish modernism : the Gothic tradition from Burke to Beckett

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Label

Terror and Irish modernism : the Gothic tradition from Burke to Beckett

Title remainder

the Gothic tradition from Burke to Beckett

Statement of responsibility

Jim Hansen

Creator

• Hansen, Jim, 1968-

Subject

• English fiction -- Irish authors | History and criticism
• Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- Ireland -- History and criticism
• Gothic revival (Literature) -- Ireland
• Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland
• Terror in literature
• Electronic resources

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Member of

• SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Cataloging source

DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PR8807.G67

LC item number

H36 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.