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Author Killeen, Jarlath, 1976-

Title The emergence of Irish gothic fiction : history, origins, theories / Jarlath Killeen.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (vii, 240 pages))
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and index.
Summary 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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Contents 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.
Note This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Language English.
Subject Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- Ireland -- History and criticism.
Monsters in literature.
Monstres dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gothic & Romance.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
Irish fiction
Monsters in literature
Ireland https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqvXDFC7pX6tHkq6DX68C
Belgium -- Merksem
Literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Textbooks
Textbooks.
Other Form: Print version: Emergence of Irish gothic fiction. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014] 9780748690800 (DLC) 2014381199
ISBN 0748690816 (electronic bk.)
9780748690817 (electronic bk.)
9780748690800 (hbk.)
9780748690817 (webready pdf)
0748697128
9780748697120
132298087X
9781322980874
0748690808 (hardback)
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AU@ 000060079423
AU@ 000066975573
DEBBG BV043780260
DEBSZ 472813625
GBVCP 1008661090
GBVCP 1030560153
GBVCP 86575487X

 
    
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