Irish Gothic
An Edinburgh Companion
Edited by Jarlath Killeen, Christina Morin
- Challenging conventional conceptualisations and understandings of ‘the Irish Gothic’, the collection advances new critical perspectives and embodies the latest thinking and research in this area
- In its attention to a cross-generic selection of literary and cultural forms from the late eighteenth-century to today, the collection probes and expands the body of texts traditionally associated with Irish Gothic cultural production and, in so doing, offers the most expansive and comprehensive overview of the subject to date
- Presenting cutting-edge approaches to Irish Gothic, while summarising the critical discourse that has shaped and continues to shape the field, the collection provides a useful and accessible research tool for established researchers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students
Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a comprehensive account of the extent to which Gothic can be traced in Irish cultural life from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, across both elite and popular genres, and through a range of different media, including literature, cinema, and folklore. It responds, in particular, to the understanding that Gothic is ubiquitous in Irish literature. Rather than focus specifically or exclusively on the oft-studied Irish Gothic foursome – Charles Maturin, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, and Bram Stoker – this companion turns attention to overlooked ‘minor’ figures such as Regina Maria Roche, Stephen Cullen, and Anne Fuller. At the same time, it considers the multi-generic nature of Irish Gothic, thinking beyond fiction and, in particular, the novel, as the Gothic genre par excellence. The collection thus affords fresh perspectives on Irish Gothic and its pervasiveness in Irish culture from the eighteenth century to today.
List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Exorcising the Dead, Summoning the Living – Jarlath Killeen and Christina Morin
Part I: Irish Gothic in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries1. ‘Quitting the Plain and Useful Path of History and Fact’: Early Irish Gothic and the Literary Marketplace – Christina Morin2. ‘How Mute their Tongues’: Irish Gothic Poetry in the Nineteenth Century – Julia M. Wright
Part II: Irish Gothic Genres and Forms3. ‘A Dead, Living, Murdered Man’: Staging the Irish Gothic – Christopher Morash4. Gothic Forms in Irish Cinema – Michael Gillespie5. Gothic Fiction and Irish Children’s Literature – Anne Markey6. Irish Ecogothic – Eóin Flannery7. Gothic Fiction in the Irish Language – Jack Fennell
Part III: Irish Gothic, Theology, and Confessional Identities8. Protestant Gothic – Alison Milbank9. Bram Stoker, Dracula, and the Irish Dimension – Jarlath Killeen10. Men and Woman in Cloaks: Irish Catholic Writers and the Gothic – Sinéad Sturgeon
Part IV: Irish Gothic Writers: Gender and Sexuality11. Irish Women Writers and the Supernatural – Melissa Edmundson12. Reflection, Anxiety, and the Feminised Body: Contemporary Irish Gothic – Ellen Scheible13. Foreign Bodies, Irish Voices: Gothic Masculinities in Irish Literature, Film, and Radio Drama – Sorcha de Brún
Notes on Contributors
Index
This outstanding collection fulfils the urgent need for a throughgoing reconsideration of the Irish gothic across genres, genders, periods, and confessional communities. Not only have the editors radically and expansively redefined the Irish gothic, but by resituating the gothic in relation to Irish and British literary history, they have productively redefined the genre itself. Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion represents an authoritative departure that simultaneously offers a broad account of the scholarship that heretofore defined the field.
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