The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction : Histories, Origins, Theories / Jarlath Killeen.
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- Literature
- Monsters in literature
- Irish fiction
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gothic & Romance
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Monstres dans la litterature
- Monsters in literature
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- Ireland -- History and criticism
- Belgium -- Merksem
- Ireland
Introduction: Zombieland: From Gothic Ireland to Irish Gothic -- 1. Braindead: Locating the Gothic -- 2. The Creeping Unknown: Re-Making Meaning in the Gothic Novel -- 3. Mad Love: The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and the Politics of Consent -- 4. The Monster Club: Monstrosity, Catholicism and Revising the (1641) Rising -- 5. Undead: Unmaking Monsters in Longsword -- Conclusion: Land of the Dead.
Introduction: Zombieland: from gothic Ireland to Irish gothic -- ch. 1. Braindead: locating the gothic -- ch. 2. The creeping unknown: re-making meaning in the gothic novel -- ch. 3. Mad love: the adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and the politics of consent -- ch. 4. The monster club: monstrosity, catholicism and revising the (1641) rising -- ch. 5. Undead: unmaking monsters in Longsword -- Conclusion: land of the dead.
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This study provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the beginnings of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland.
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