The Gothic Family Romance,9780822324140

The Gothic Family Romance

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ISBN13: 9780822324140
ISBN10: 0822324148
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-10-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary

"With extraordinary analytic clarity, Margot Backus sifts the troubling evidence of three centuries and offers valuable commentary on writings from Swift to Jennifer Johnston, from Edmund Burke to Frank McGuinness. This book resonates with grand ideas."--Declan Kiberd, University College Dublin

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(20)
The Other Half of the Story: English and Irish Social Formations, 1550-1700
21(27)
``Does She Not Deserve to Pay for All This?'' Compulsory Romance in the Constricting Family Cell
48(27)
``Something Valuable of Their Own'': Children, Reproduction, and Irony in Swift, Burke, and Edgeworth
75(34)
``A Very Strange Agony'': Parables of Sexual Subject Formation in Melmoth the Wanderer, Carmilla, and Dracula
109(35)
Irish Gothic Realism and the Great War: The Devil's Bargain and the Demon Lover
144(27)
Somebody Else's Troubles: Post-treaty Retrenchment and the (Burning) Big House Novel
171(45)
``Perhaps I May Come Alive'': Mother Ireland and the Unfinished Revolution
216(33)
Conclusion
239(10)
Notes 249(18)
Bibliography 267(12)
Index 279

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