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The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction

The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction

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Killeen's book provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century. This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the ‘beginnings’ of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland. The main argument the book makes is that the Irish gothic should be read in the context of the split in Irish Anglican public opinion that opened in the 1750s, and seen as a fictional instrument of liberal Anglican opinion in a changing political landscape. By providing a fully historicized account of the beginnings of the genre in Ireland, the book also addresses the theoretical controversies that have bedevilled discussion of the Irish gothic in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The book gives ample space to the critical debate, and rigorously defends a reading of the Irish gothic as an Anglican, Patriot tradition. This reading demonstrates the connections between little-known Irish gothic fictions of the mid-eighteenth century (The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Longsword), and the Irish gothic tradition more generally, and also the gothic as a genre of global significance.

Key Features
  • Examines gothic texts including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, (Anon), The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Thomas Leland's Longsword
  • Provides a rigorous and robust theory of the Irish Gothic
  • Reads early Irish gothic fully into the political context of mid-eighteenth century Ireland
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Keywords

  • Literary Criticism
  • Allegory
  • Anglicanism
  • Catholic Church
  • Gothic fiction
  • Ireland
  • KUnlatched
  • Literary Criticism
  • Literature
  • Literature & literary studies
  • Literature: history & criticism
  • Nonfiction
  • protestantism
  • thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism

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DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748690800.001.0001

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