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From the bodies rotting by the wayside in Famine fiction, Synge's sodden corpses and Joyce's dead, to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's talking corpses and the unburied and dissected remains of Celtic Tiger fiction, the figure of the corpse is ubiquitous in Irish writing. This collection examines the Irish corpse as a conceptually rich centre-point with multiple differently signifying implications across this historical period as expressed in different social, political and creative contexts.
Taking Irish literature's obsession with death as its starting point, The Corpse in Irish Literature demonstrates the wide-ranging implications of this fixation, extending it through the contexts of the tragedies of the Irish past and the emergence of new identities in the wake of colonial modernity. In their range of authors and genres from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, the chapters bring into focus patterns of change and continuity and extend current understanding of the Gothic mode, the national tale, the Irish modernist novel, Irish-language poetry, the elegiac mode, comic and tragic revivalist writings and the generic complexity of autofiction and contemporary fiction. In so doing, The Corpse in Irish Literature makes a significant intervention in Irish studies, Gothic studies, death studies and medical and health humanities.
Contents
1. Introduction
Christopher Cusack, Bridget English, and Matthew Reznicek
The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature
II. Reframing the Corpse
2. Colleen English
Elegies in Irish Country Churchyards: James Orr, Thomas Dermody, and Sympathetic Corpses
3. Christina Morin
'Why do you bring your dead bodies littering here?': The Corpse and the Comic Gothic in Romantic-Era Irish Women's Writing
4. Matthew L. Reznicek
Between Epidemic and Endemic Deaths: Death and the State in The Wild Irish Girl
III. Revitalizing the Corpse
5. Michael McAteer
The Corpse in Irish Folklore and Drama: Douglas Hyde and John Millington Synge
6. Daniela Theinová
The Ethics of Dust: The Speaking Cadaver in Modern and Contemporary Irish-Language Poetry
7. Margaret O'Neill
'She had never seen a dead person': Corpses and Spiritual Transformation in Kate O'Brien
8. Lloyd Meadhbh Houston
James Joyce's 'The Sisters': Irish Modernism and the Sexually Pathological Corpse
IV. Familial Corpses
9. Bridget English
Collapsing Flesh and Wasted Bodies: Maternal Corpses and Septic Irish Modernism
10. Christopher Cusack
Post-Celtic Tiger Fiction and the Remains of Irish History
11. Kathleen Costello-Sullivan
'Puppeting It Back to Life': Corpses, Motherhood, and Authorship in Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat
V. Unquiet Remains
12. José Lanters
Corpses, Cadavers, and Unquiet Remains in Marina Carr's On Raftery's Hill and Ariel
13. Sinéad Kennedy
Antigone's Daughters: Gender, Reproduction, and the Politics of the Dead
14. Mary M. Burke
The 'Problem' of the Unbaptized Corpse: Mary Leland's The Killeen
15. Mindi McMann
Haunting the Troubles: The Missing Body in David Park's The Truth Commissioner
16. Afterword
Joe Cleary
