UID:
almahu_9948635337002882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 235 pages) :
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illustrations, maps; digital file(s).
Edition:
Open Access edition.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2018. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781526122308
Series Statement:
Manchester Gothic
Content:
'An important and authoritative book, in which Christina Morin steps outside established definitions of ‘Irish Gothic’ in order to make a fluent and convincing case for a wider, deeper and longer history of Irish fiction. 'The Gothic Novel in Ireland' not only offers a bracing challenge to existing theories of Irish Gothic, it also reshapes our understanding of the history of the novel in Britain and Ireland while redrawing the map of Irish romanticism.' Claire Connolly, Professor of Modern English, University College Cork
Content:
'The Gothic Novel in Ireland is a very welcome mapping of an almost completely unknown body of fiction – the earlyIrish Gothic novel. Morin not only brings to an end the literary historical amnesia which allowed so much interesting, important and often compelling fiction to be forgotten, but effectively rescues these novels from what Franco Moretti calls the "slaughterhouse of literature". This study will provide Irish Studies and Gothic Studies scholars with a comprehensivesense of the sheer amount of early Irish Gothic fiction, clarifying how this body of work relates to ‘canonical’ Irish and, indeed, European fiction. Crucially, Morin carefully refocuses attention on what eighteenth and early nineteenth century writers, critics, and readers understood as ‘gothic’, rather than retrospectively applying twentieth century reformulations. Her writing is a model of clarity and critical generosity, meaning the study is immensely readable and can be enthusiastically recommended to students as well as critics and scholars. This is the most significant intervention in Irish Gothic Studies for years.' Jarlath Killeen, author of 〈i〉The Emergence of Irish GothicFiction: History, Texts, Theories〈/i〉 (2013)
Content:
'Introducing her readership to revelatory, new examples of Irish Gothic fiction during the Romantic period, Christina Morin's 'The Gothic Novel in Ireland, 1760-1829' combines meticulous research with excellent contextualization. It demonstrates just how extensive the symbolic and affective work of the Gothic was in Ireland during the Romantic period, and will become an essential work for future scholars of Gothic, Romanticism and Irish studies.' Angela Wright, Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield.
Content:
'The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829' offers a compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. Countering traditional scholarly views of the ‘rise’ of ‘the gothic novel’ on the one hand, and, on the other, Irish Romantic literature, this study persuasively re-integrates a body of now overlooked works into the history of the literary gothic as it emerged across Ireland, Britain, and Europe between 1760 and 1829. Its twinned quantitative and qualitative analysis of neglected Irish texts produces a new formal, generic, and ideological map of gothic literary production in this period, persuasively positioning Irish works and authors at the centre of a new critical paradigm with which to understand both Irish Romantic and gothic literary production.
Note:
In-house editor: Matthew Frost.
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Introduction: locating the Irish gothic novel --1. Gothic temporalities: ‘Gothicism’, ‘historicism’, and the overlap of fictional modes from Thomas Leland to Walter Scott --2. Gothic genres: romances, novels, and the classifications of Irish Romantic fiction --3. Gothic geographies: the cartographic consciousness of Irish gothicfiction --4. Gothic materialities: Regina Maria Roche, the Minerva Press, and the bibliographic spread of Irish gothic fiction --Conclusion --Appendix 1: 〈/i〉〈i〉A working bibliography of Irish gothic fiction, c. 1760–1829 --Select bibliography --Index.
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Morin, Christina. The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1830, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2018, ISBN 9780719099175
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526122308
URL:
http://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526122308/9781526122308.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526122308
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