... Cargill . Irish Booksellers and English Writers 1740–1800 . London: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1986 . Connolly , S.J. “Eighteenth-Century Ireland Colony or ancien régime?” The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the revisionist controversy . Eds. D George Boyce and Alan O’Day...

...Gregory Dobbins This article focuses on what the author calls “Irish time” in Flann O'Brien's 1939 novel At Swim-Two-Birds . The author equates the form of this novel with a tension between a progressive form of modernization advocated by the postcolonial state and a deeper cultural and social...

...Michael McGurk Abstract How can an economic model designed to eliminate waste produce nothing but? The answer, according to Samuel Beckett's Watt , can be found in the system of economic relations presupposed by the Anglo-Irish Big House novels that emerged after the 1800 Acts of Union...

...Anthony Jarrells Connolly Claire , A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790–1829 . ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2012 ), pp. 269 , cloth, $90.00 . Maurer Sara L. , The Dispossessed State: Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland . ( Baltimore...

... who populate Ulysses as a whole. Drawing attention to Joyce's use of reproductive metaphors for character-creation, the author argues that this proliferation of fictional characters compensates for a very real sense of demographic deficit in the wake of the Irish Famine. By refusing to abide...

... with newly enfranchised Irish populations—the very modes of thought and feeling Enlightenment theories of sociality had classified as disruptive to sympathetic economy—prove key to internalizing and embodying statistical abstractions. The unruly affective signature of the masses long designated...

..., the form that had mastered the containment of violence was the historical novel, and Macdermots is clearly attempting to come to terms with the inheritance of Sir Walter Scott. It is equally preoccupied with the tradition of the Irish national tale, in particular with the models of national restoration...

...Marian Eide James Joyce's Ulysses is punctuated by bad jokes. While the novel is itself comedic, the scripted rhetoric of humor throughout the narrative fails, revealing fractures in an Irish community divided by shared colonial experience. Good jokes depend on both communal feeling...

... . Stranger in Ireland: or, A tour in the southern and western parts of that country in 1805 . Shannon: Irish UP, 1806 . Curran , John Philpot . Collected Speeches, with a new Memoir of his Life . Dublin. 1815 . Deane , Seamus . Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing...

...: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature , Katarzyna Bartoszyńska studies strange novels from Poland and Ireland to question histories of the novel that emphasize the rise of realism. Instead of thinking about what these novels are—realist or romance, Polish or Irish, fact or fiction—she...

...Nick Daly JOSEPH VALENTE, Dracula’s Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), pp. xi + 173, paper, $29.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Out of the Crypt JOSEPH VALENTE, Dracula's Crypt...

...). This sense of sexual and linguistic exile is for McCrea the very engine of modernist formal experimentation and innovation. In chapter 1, McCrea examines the fate of the Irish language in the twentieth century, arguing that the abandonment of Irish as a vernacular led to the sacralization of the language...

...Sam Alexander Mullen Patrick R. , The Poor Bugger's Tool: Irish Modernism, Queer Labor, and Postcolonial History . ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2012 ), pp. 213 , cloth, $65.00 . © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Works Cited Cleary Joe . “Toward...

...LOIS CUCULLU COLLEEN LAMOS, Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 288, $59.95. VICKI MAHAFFEY, States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Experiment (Oxford: Oxford...

... misses an important opportunity to reach beyond the disciplinary limits of its own literary critical practice. At first glance, the title is somewhat misleading. Of its five chapters, only two discuss Victorian fiction and only one discusses the Irish famine directly. Instead, Bigelow inter...

...-or-death competition. Thus, "what Henke calls 'a whirl- pool of commercial fantasy' . . . is in fact the relentlessly real 'owner's manual' that an Irish woman in Joyce's time must scmpulously consult if she hopes to maximize her limited op portunities in the overcrowded marriage marketplace" (121...

...," the field "tends to privilege culture (rather than, for example, econom- ics or military force) as both an instrument of imperial domination and a vehicle of resistance to it" which tends to lead to "various forms of Irish exceptionalism" (Attridge and Howes 10). As my title implies, my intention...

... on “the white girl.” In 1859–60, Wilkie Collins serialized The Woman in White, one of the inau- gural sensation fictions, an event emerging in a mechanical whirl of new mass culture. In October 1860, Dion Boucicault’s drama, The Colleen Bawn, translatable from the Irish as the “fair” or “white” girl...

.... patrick mullen is assistant professor of English at Northeastern University. He has published arti- cles on Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Roger Casement and recently completed a book manuscript titled “The Poor Bugger’s Tool: Irish Modernism, Queer Labor, and Postcolonial History.” zarena aslami...

... (1800) have always been something of a puzzle. Despite the clarity of Edgeworth's status as a committed defender of Irish culture and critic of the Anglo-Irish landowning class, the novel traces the progressive decline of an Anglo-Irish family of landowners across four generations and the concomitant...