Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-viii

Introduction: Exorcising the Dead, Summoning the Living

pp 1-26

PART I: Irish Gothic In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

pp 27-28

1 - ‘Quitting the Plain and Useful Path of History and Fact’: Early Irish Gothic and the Literary Marketplace

pp 29-45

2 - ‘How Mute their Tongues’: Irish Gothic Poetry in the Nineteenth Century

pp 46-62

PART II: Irish Gothic Genres And Forms

pp 63-64

3 - ‘A Dead, Living, Murdered Man’: Staging the Irish Gothic

pp 65-82

4 - Gothic Forms in Irish Cinema

pp 83-97

5 - Gothic Fiction and Irish Children’s Literature

pp 98-113

6 - Irish Ecogothic

pp 114-134

7 - Gothic Fiction in the Irish Language

pp 135-150

PART III: Irish Gothic, Theology, And Confessional Identities

pp 151-152

8 - Protestant Gothic

pp 153-173

9 - Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Irish Dimension

pp 174-193

10 - Irish Catholic Writers and the Gothic: Situating Thomas Furlong’s The Doom of Derenzie (1829)

pp 194-210

PART IV: Irish Gothic Writers: GenderAnd Sexuality

pp 211-212

11 - Irish Women Writers and the Supernatural

pp 213-231

12 - Reflection, Anxiety and the Feminised Body: Contemporary Irish Gothic

pp 232-251

13 - Foreign Bodies, Irish Voices: Gothic Masculinities in Irish Literature, Film and Radio Drama

pp 252-271

Notes on Contributors

pp 272-275

Index

pp 276-284