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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 Modern 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 Modern 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. 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 Theinová
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 Ní Ghríofa'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
José Lanters
13. Antigone's Daughters: Gender, Reproduction, and the Politics of the Dead
Sinéad 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
