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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-277) and index