Terror and Irish Modernism : The Gothic Tradition From Burke to Beckett
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| Title: | Terror and Irish Modernism : The Gothic Tradition From Burke to Beckett |
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| Description: | Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.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. |
| Authors: | Jim Hansen |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--Histor, English fiction--Irish authors--History and cr, Terror in literature, Gothic revival (Literature)--Ireland, Modernism (Literature)--Ireland |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781438428215 9781438428222 9781438428345 |
