Irish Gothic : : An Edinburgh Companion / / ed. by Jarlath Killeen, Christina Morin.

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• MitwirkendeR: Brún, Sorcha de,; Edmundson, Melissa,
• HerausgeberIn: Killeen, Jarlath,; Morin, Christina,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic : ECG
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 5 B/W illustrations

A thorough account of the engagements with the Gothic mode by Irish artists from the eighteenth century to today.Challenging conventional conceptualisations and understandings of ‘the Irish Gothic’, the collection advances new critical perspectives and embodies the latest thinking and research in this area In its attention to a cross-generic selection of literary and cultural forms from the late eighteenth-century to today, the collection probes and expands the body of texts traditionally associated with Irish Gothic cultural production and, in so doing, offers the most expansive and comprehensive overview of the subject to datePresenting cutting-edge approaches to Irish Gothic, while summarising the critical discourse that has shaped and continues to shape the field, the collection provides a useful and accessible research tool for established researchers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a comprehensive account of the extent to which Gothic can be traced in Irish cultural life from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, across both elite and popular genres, and through a range of different media, including literature, cinema, and folklore. It responds, in particular, to the understanding that Gothic is ubiquitous in Irish literature. Rather than focus specifically or exclusively on the oft-studied Irish Gothic foursome – Charles Maturin, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, and Bram Stoker – this companion turns attention to overlooked ‘minor’ figures such as Regina Maria Roche, Stephen Cullen, and Anne Fuller. At the same time, it considers the multi-generic nature of Irish Gothic, thinking beyond fiction and, in particular, the novel, as the Gothic genre par excellence. The collection thus affords fresh perspectives on Irish Gothic and its pervasiveness in Irish culture from the eighteenth century to today.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Exorcising the Dead, Summoning the Living -- Part I Irish Gothic in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Chapter 1 ‘Quitting the Plain and Useful Path of History and Fact’: Early Irish Gothic and the Literary Marketplace -- Chapter 2 ‘How Mute Their Tongues’: Irish Gothic Poetry in the Nineteenth Century -- Part II Irish Gothic Genres and Forms -- Chapter 3 ‘A Dead, Living, Murdered Man’: Staging the Irish Gothic -- Chapter 4 Gothic Forms in Irish Cinema -- Chapter 5 Gothic Fiction and Irish Children’s Literature -- Chapter 6 Irish Ecogothic -- Chapter 7 Gothic Fiction in the Irish Language -- Part III Irish Gothic, Theology, and Confessional Identities -- Chapter 8 Protestant Gothic -- Chapter 9 Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Irish Dimension -- Chapter 10 Irish Catholic Writers and the Gothic: Situating Thomas Furlong’s The Doom of Derenzie (1829) -- Part IV Irish Gothic Writers: Gender and Sexuality -- Chapter 11 Irish Women Writers and the Supernatural -- Chapter 12 Reflection, Anxiety and the Feminised Body: Contemporary Irish Gothic -- Chapter 13 Foreign Bodies, Irish Voices: Gothic Masculinities in Irish Literature, Film and Radio Drama -- Notes on Contributors -- Index