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Author Backus, Margot Gayle, 1961-

Title The Gothic family romance : heterosexuality, child sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish colonial order / Margot Gayle Backus
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999

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 W'PONDS  809.3083 B1268/G  AVAILABLE
Description pages cm
Series Post-contemporary interventions
Post-contemporary interventions.
Contents 1. The Other Half of the Story: English and Irish Social Formations, 1550-1700 -- 2. "Does She Not Deserve to Pay for All This?" Compulsory Romance in the Constricting Family Cell -- 3. "Something Valuable of Their Own": Children, Reproduction, and Irony in Swift, Burke, and Edgeworth -- 4. "A Very Strange Agony": Parables of Sexual Subject Formation in Melmoth the Wanderer, Carmilla, and Dracula -- 5. Irish Gothic Realism and the Great War: The Devil's Bargain and the Demon Lover -- 6. Somebody Else's Troubles: Post-treaty Retrenchment and the (Burning) Big House Novel -- 7. "Perhaps I May Come Alive": Mother Ireland and the Unfinished Revolution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-277) and index
Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject British -- Ireland -- History.
Capitalism and literature -- Ireland -- History.
Colonies in literature.
Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism.
British -- Ireland.
English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Gothic revival (Literature) -- Ireland.
Parent and child in literature.
Heterosexuality in literature.
Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Repression (Psychology)
Repression (Psychology) in literature.
Sacrifice in literature.
LC no. 99020689
ISBN 082232380X (cloth : alk. paper)
0822324148 (paperback: alk. paper)