Terror and Irish Modernism by Jim Hansen

Terror and Irish Modernism by Jim Hansen

Terror and Irish Modernism offers a synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction. Covering more than two centuries of literary production, Jim Hansen locates the root structure of modern Irish fiction in the masculine gender anxiety of one of the nineteenth century's most popular literary genres: the Gothic. Addressing both the decolonization of Ireland and the politics of literary form, Hansen sheds new light on canonical works by Maria Edgeworth, C. R. Maturin, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett by reading them all as part of the generic tradition of the Irish Gothic. He focuses in particular on how the Irish Gothic tradition translated the English Gothic's female-confinement narrative into a story about confined, feminized male protagonists. In reading this male gender-disorientation as the foundational condition of modern Irish political identity, Terror and Irish Modernism provides a thoroughly new genealogy of modern Irish fiction.

Jim Hansen is Assistant Professor of English and Critical Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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ISBN 13	9781438428222
ISBN 10	1438428227
Title	Terror and Irish Modernism
Author	Jim Hansen
Series	Suny Series Studies In The Long Nineteenth Century
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2010-07-02
Number of pages	219
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