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This book will be of interest to students and scholars in various disciplines, including literary studies, history, sociology and gender studies. -- .

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Going to Tara via Vienna: Joyce and the Freudian Bildungsroman
2. Growing Pains: sexuality, Irish moral politics and capitalist crisis, 1920–1940
3. Kate O’Brien and the erotics of liberal Catholic dissent
4. Married Bliss: sexuality, Catholicism and modernisation in Ireland, 1940–1965
5. Sex and the Country: the rural Bildungsromane of Maura Laverty and Patrick Kavanagh
6. Arrested Development: sexuality, trauma and history in John McGahern and Edna O’Brien
Conclusion
Bibliography

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/11/2012
      ISBN13: 9780719086137, 978-0719086137
      ISBN10: 719086132

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book will be of interest to students and scholars in various disciplines, including literary studies, history, sociology and gender studies. -- .

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      1. Going to Tara via Vienna: Joyce and the Freudian Bildungsroman
      2. Growing Pains: sexuality, Irish moral politics and capitalist crisis, 1920–1940
      3. Kate O’Brien and the erotics of liberal Catholic dissent
      4. Married Bliss: sexuality, Catholicism and modernisation in Ireland, 1940–1965
      5. Sex and the Country: the rural Bildungsromane of Maura Laverty and Patrick Kavanagh
      6. Arrested Development: sexuality, trauma and history in John McGahern and Edna O’Brien
      Conclusion
      Bibliography

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