Introduction: a history of the Irish novel: 1665-2010
Interchapter: Virtue Rewarded, or, The Irish Princess: burgeoning silence and the new novel form in Ireland
1. Beginnings and endings: writing from the margins 1665-1800
Interchapter: beyond history: Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent
2. Speak not my name or, the wings of Minerva: Irish fiction 1800-1891
Interchapter: Edith Somerville and Martin Ross's The Real Charlotte: the blooming menagerie
3. Living in a time of epic: the Irish novel and literary revival and revolution, 1891-1922
Interchapter: James Joyce's Ulysses: choosing life
4. Irish independence and the bureaucratic imagination: 1922-1939
Interchapter: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and the art of betrayal
5. Enervated island - isolated Ireland? 1940-1960
Interchapter: John Banville's Doctor Copernicus: a revolution in the head
6. The struggle of making it new 1960-1979
Interchapter: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark and the rebel act of interpretation
7. Brave new worlds - Celtic tigers and moving statues: 1979 to the present day
Interchapter: John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun: saying the very last things
Conclusion: the future of the Irish novel in the global literary marketplace
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