Margot Backus

The Gothic Family Romance

Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order

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Produktbeschreibung

"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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822324140
• ISBN-10: 0822324148
• Artikelnr.: 22166337

Autorenporträt

Margot Gayle Backus is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston.

Inhaltsangabe

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