"Backus's fresh and unexpected insights into Irish Gothic texts along with the sophisticated and contemporary theoretical base of her argument should ensure this book an important place in Irish studies."--Ann Owens Weekes, University of Arizona
"Backus's fresh and unexpected insights into Irish Gothic texts along with the sophisticated and contemporary theoretical base of her argument should ensure this book an important place in Irish studies."--Ann Owens Weekes, University of Arizona
Margot Gayle Backus is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston.
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Other Half of the Story: English and Irish Social Formations, 1550-1700 2 "Does she not deserve to Pay for All This?" Compulsory Romance in the Constricting Family Cell 3 "Something Valuable of Their Own": Children, Reporduction, and Irony in Swift, Burke, and Edgeworth 4 "A Very Strange Agony": Parables of Sexual Subject Formation in Melmoth the Wanderer, Carmilla, and Dracula 5 Irish Gothic Realism and the Great War: The Devil's bargain and the Demon Lover 6 Somebody Else's Troubles: Post-treaty Retrenchment and the (Burning) Big House Novel 7 "Perhaps I may Come Live": Mother Ireland and the Unfinished Revolution Conclusion Notes BIbliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Other Half of the Story: English and Irish Social Formations, 1550-1700 2 "Does she not deserve to Pay for All This?" Compulsory Romance in the Constricting Family Cell 3 "Something Valuable of Their Own": Children, Reporduction, and Irony in Swift, Burke, and Edgeworth 4 "A Very Strange Agony": Parables of Sexual Subject Formation in Melmoth the Wanderer, Carmilla, and Dracula 5 Irish Gothic Realism and the Great War: The Devil's bargain and the Demon Lover 6 Somebody Else's Troubles: Post-treaty Retrenchment and the (Burning) Big House Novel 7 "Perhaps I may Come Live": Mother Ireland and the Unfinished Revolution Conclusion Notes BIbliography Index
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