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Book Synopsis
Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Part One: On Literary History
1. Cashiering the gothic tradition
2. Between Balzac and Yeats
3. Swedenborg's ghost

Part Two: Le Fanu and his Art
4. Mediating the Past: The House by the Church-yard
5. The parochial and exotic: two tales of 1891
6. Beginning the English novels
7. Characters beheaded with mottoes
8. Towards a theory of public opinion
9. 'Freezing brightness'
10 Gottfried Schalcken in history and fiction

Part Three: The Great Enchantment
11. In a Glass Darkly
12. Serialism?
13. Gladstone and Ascendancy: or, here we go round the upas tree
14. Yeats and gothic politics

Part Four: Elizabeth Bowen and The Heat of the Day
15. Is the novel properly entitled...?
16. Indefinite articles
17. 'The neutral island in the heart of man'

Epilogue: The Disinherited of Literary History
Index

Dissolute Characters Irish Literary History

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/31/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719085635, 978-0719085635
      ISBN10: 0719085632

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword
      Part One: On Literary History
      1. Cashiering the gothic tradition
      2. Between Balzac and Yeats
      3. Swedenborg's ghost

      Part Two: Le Fanu and his Art
      4. Mediating the Past: The House by the Church-yard
      5. The parochial and exotic: two tales of 1891
      6. Beginning the English novels
      7. Characters beheaded with mottoes
      8. Towards a theory of public opinion
      9. 'Freezing brightness'
      10 Gottfried Schalcken in history and fiction

      Part Three: The Great Enchantment
      11. In a Glass Darkly
      12. Serialism?
      13. Gladstone and Ascendancy: or, here we go round the upas tree
      14. Yeats and gothic politics

      Part Four: Elizabeth Bowen and The Heat of the Day
      15. Is the novel properly entitled...?
      16. Indefinite articles
      17. 'The neutral island in the heart of man'

      Epilogue: The Disinherited of Literary History
      Index

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