Literature Studies

A fresh account of Irish Romanticism and the Irish novel in turbulent political times.

Presenting a vibrant account of Ireland's literary voices, this volume will be a key reference for scholars and students of Irish literature and English romanticism. It offers a new account of the years that formed the crucible of Irish writing in English, taking account of colonial, European, and transatlantic contexts.

This book analyses the work of the literary pioneer Katherine Phillips. It includes literary-historical analyses of her use of form and genre, as well as theoretical, archipelagic and digital humanities approaches to her work. This book was first published as two special issues of Women's Writing.

An incisively argued collection of essays which sets out to look afresh at the landscape of Irish poetry in the 1930's.

This book provides a new account of Bowen's fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen's virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender.

This long-awaited selection of essays and reviews from one of Ireland's leading critics and essayists brings together a wealth of reflection, observation and astute literary comment. It ranges in time from William Carleton to Edna O'Brien, and in subject matter from recent Irish poetry to ghosts, children's books and MI5.

On Autumn Lake collects four decades of prose (1976-2020) by renowned poet and beloved cult figure Douglas Crase, with an emphasis on idiosyncratic essays about quintessentially American poets and the enduring transcendentalist tradition.

An ambitious and wide-ranging study of the Irish gay novel, not merely in relation to a broader Irish political and historical narrative, but also a global one of increasing neoliberal domination legitimated by liberal social politics. -- .

An ambitious and wide-ranging study of the Irish gay novel, not merely in relation to a broader Irish political and historical narrative, but also a global one of increasing neoliberal domination legitimated by liberal social politics. -- .