Corpse in Modern Irish Literature

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Corpse in Modern Irish Literature

English, Bridget; Cusack, Christopher; Reznicek, Matthew L.

Liverpool University Press

02/2026

328

Dura

Inglês

9781836244837

15 a 20 dias

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1. Introduction

Christopher Cusack, Bridget English, and Matthew Reznicek

The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature

II. Reframing the Corpse

2. Elegies in Irish Country Churchyards: James Orr, Thomas Dermody, and Sympathetic Corpses

Colleen English

3. 'Why do you bring your dead bodies littering here?': The Corpse and the Comic Gothic in Romantic-Era Irish Women's Writing

Christina Morin

4. Between Epidemic and Endemic Deaths: Death and the State in The Wild Irish Girl

Matthew L. Reznicek

III. Revitalizing the Corpse

5. The Corpse in Irish Folklore and Drama: Douglas Hyde and John Millington Synge

Michael McAteer

6. The Ethics of Dust: The Speaking Cadaver in Modern and Contemporary Irish-Language Poetry

Daniela Theinova

7. 'She had never seen a dead person': Corpses and Spiritual Transformation in Kate O'Brien

Margaret O'Neill

8. James Joyce's 'The Sisters': Irish Modernism and the Sexually Pathological Corpse

Lloyd Meadhbh Houston

IV. Familial Corpses

9. Collapsing Flesh and Wasted Bodies: Maternal Corpses and Septic Irish Modernism

Bridget English

10. Post-Celtic Tiger Fiction and the Remains of Irish History

Christopher Cusack

11. 'Puppeting It Back to Life': Corpses, Motherhood, and Authorship in Doireann Ni Ghriofa's A Ghost in the Throat

Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

V. Unquiet Remains

12. Corpses, Cadavers, and Unquiet Remains in Marina Carr's On Raftery's Hill and Ariel

Jose Lanters

13. Antigone's Daughters: Gender, Reproduction, and the Politics of the Dead

Sinead Kennedy

14. The 'Problem' of the Unbaptized Corpse: Mary Leland's The Killeen

Mary M. Burke

15. Haunting the Troubles: The Missing Body in David Park's The Truth Commissioner

Mindi McMann

16. Afterword

Joe Cleary
death;burial practices;Ireland;Gothic;medical humanities