The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cover......Page 1
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION\rTO THE IRISH NOVEL......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Notes on contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgment......Page 10
Chronology......Page 11
Introduction......Page 22
1 The novel before 1800......Page 43
2 The national tale and allied genres, 1770s–1840s......Page 60
3 The novel of the big house......Page 81
4 The Gothic novel......Page 99
5 Catholics and fiction during the Union, 1801–1922......Page 118
6 Irish modernisms, 1880–1930......Page 134
7 James Joyce......Page 154
8 Region, realism and reaction, 1922–1972......Page 174
9 The novel in Irish......Page 192
10 Women novelists, 1930s–1960s......Page 210
11 Two post-modern novelists: Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien......Page 226
12 Life writing in the twentieth century......Page 244
13 The novel and the Northern Troubles......Page 259
14 Contemporary Irish fiction......Page 280
Index......Page 297