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The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction : History, Origins, Theories / Jarlath Killeen.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780748690817
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 823.0
LOC classification:
  • PR8807.G67 K55 2014
  • PR8807.G67 K55 2014
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Zombieland: From Gothic Ireland to Irish Gothic -- 1. Braindead: Locating the Goth -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth centuryGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748690800','ISBN:9780748690817']);This new 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.Jarlath Killeen argues that Irish gothic should be read in the context of the split in Irish Anglican public opinion that opened in the 1750s, and seen as a space for the development and expression of liberal Anglican opinion in a changing political landscape. By providing a fully historicised account of the beginnings of the genre in Ireland, the book also addresses the theoretical controversies that have frustrated discussion of the Irish gothic in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The book gives ample space to the critical debate, and rigorously defends a reading of the Irish gothic as an Anglican, Patriot tradition. This reading demonstrates the connections between little-known Irish gothic fictions of the mid-eighteenth century (The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Longsword), the Irish gothic tradition more generally, and also the gothic as a genre of global significance.Key Features Examines gothic texts including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, (Anon), The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Thomas Leland's LongswordProvides a rigorous and robust theory of the Irish GothicReads early Irish gothic fully into the political context of mid-eighteenth century Ireland"
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Zombieland: From Gothic Ireland to Irish Gothic -- 1. Braindead: Locating the Goth -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index

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Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth centuryGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748690800','ISBN:9780748690817']);This new 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.Jarlath Killeen argues that Irish gothic should be read in the context of the split in Irish Anglican public opinion that opened in the 1750s, and seen as a space for the development and expression of liberal Anglican opinion in a changing political landscape. By providing a fully historicised account of the beginnings of the genre in Ireland, the book also addresses the theoretical controversies that have frustrated discussion of the Irish gothic in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The book gives ample space to the critical debate, and rigorously defends a reading of the Irish gothic as an Anglican, Patriot tradition. This reading demonstrates the connections between little-known Irish gothic fictions of the mid-eighteenth century (The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Longsword), the Irish gothic tradition more generally, and also the gothic as a genre of global significance.Key Features Examines gothic texts including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, (Anon), The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Thomas Leland's LongswordProvides a rigorous and robust theory of the Irish GothicReads early Irish gothic fully into the political context of mid-eighteenth century Ireland"

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