Irish gothics : genres, forms, modes, and traditions, 1760-1890 / edited by Christina Morin, University of Limerick, Ireland and Niall Gillespie, Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
'The Old Far West and the New': Bram Stoker, Race, and Manifest Destiny / Luke Gibbons. 10. Theorizing 'Gothic' in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Christina Morin -- 2. The Irish Protestant Gothic Imaginary: The Cultural Contexts for the Gothic Chapbooks, published by Bennett Dugdale, 1800-5 / Diane Long Hoeveler -- 3. Irish Jacobin Gothic, c. 1796-1825 / Niall Gillespie -- 4. Suffering Rebellion: Irish Gothic Fiction, 1799-1830 / Jim Shanahan -- 5. The Gothicization of Irish Folklore / Anne Markey -- 6. Maturin's Catholic Heirs: Expanding the Limits of Irish Gothic / Richard Haslam -- 7. J.S. Le Fanu, Gothic, and the Irish Periodical / Elizabeth Tilley -- 8. 'Whom We Name Not': The House by the Churchyard and its Annotation / W.J. Mc Cormack -- 9. Muscling Up: Bram Stoker and Irish Masculinity in The Snake's Pass / Jarlath Killeen -- 10. 'The Old Far West and the New': Bram Stoker, Race, and Manifest Destiny / Luke Gibbons.
Summary:
"Variously described as a 'canon', 'tradition', 'genre', 'form', 'mode', and 'register', Irish gothic literature suffers from a fundamental terminological confusion, and the debate over exactly which term best applies has been both heated and, ultimately, inconclusive in the past thirty years. The dominant theorization of Irish gothic literature to emerge in late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century scholarship has been driven by psychoanalytic readings of the literary gothic in Ireland as the fictional representation of the repressed fears and anxieties of the minority Anglo-Irish population. Such definitions of Irish gothic literature, however, both overlook the gothic literary output of authors who were not members of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy and suggest that gothic writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was confined solely to fiction. This collection of essays challenges these assumptions, exploring the rich and varied gothic literary production of a large, multicultural selection of authors working across the genres in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland"-- Provided by publisher.
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