Joseph Valente, Margot Gayle Backus

The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature

Writing the Unspeakable

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Produktbeschreibung

The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature refines the debates on why so many Irish children were lost by offering insight into the lived experience of both the children and those who failed them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780253053176
• ISBN-10: 025305317X
• Artikelnr.: 58666925

Autorenporträt

Joseph Valente is UB Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo. He is author and editor of several books, most recently The Myth of Manliness in Irish Nationalist Culture, 1880-1922 . He is also editor of the annotated edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker and (with Marjorie Howes) of Yeats and Afterwords: Christ, Culture, and Crisis . Margot Gayle Backus holds a John and Rebecca Moores Professorship in the Department of English at the University of Houston. She is author of The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality and Child Sacrifice in the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order and of Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction: The Enigmatic History of Imperiled Innocence
1. "An Iridescence Difficult to Account for": Sexual Initiation in Joyce's
Fiction of Development
2. Between (Open) Secret and Enigma: Kate O'Brien, The Land of Spices, and
the Stylistic Invention of Lesbian (In)visibility
3. Country Girl: Groomed, Seduced, and Abandoned
4. From the Pits and Ditches Where People Have Fallen: Sex Scandal and the
Reinvention of the Irish Public Sphere in Keith Ridgway's The Long Falling
5. Retrofitting Ireland's Architecture of Containment in Tana French's In
the Woods
6. "Roaring Inside Me": The Enigma of Sexual Violence in The Gathering
Epilogue: What About Brendan?
Bibliography of Images
Works Cited
Index