The Gothic family romance : heterosexuality, child sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish colonial order
Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. This book shows how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries reflect the destructive effects of imperialism on the children.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 291 pages ; 23 cm.
9780822324140, 9780822323808, 0822324148, 082232380X
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The other half of the story: English and Irish social formations, 1550-1700
"Does she not deserve to pay for all this?" Compulsory romance in the constricting family cell
"Something valuable of their own": children, reproduction, and irony in Swift, Burke, and Edgeworth
"A very strange agony": parables of sexual subject formation in Melmoth the wanderer, Carmilla, and Dracula
Irish gothic realism and the Great War: the devil's bargain and the demon lover
Somebody else's troubles: post-treaty retrenchment and the (burning) Big House novel
"Perhaps I may come alive": Mother Ireland and the unfinished revolution