TY  - GEN
T1  - Dissolute characters : Irish literary history through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats, and Bowen
T2  - Manchester Gothic (Manchester, England)
A1  - McCormack, W. J. (William John), 1947-
LA  - English
PP  - Manchester, UK
PB  - Manchester University Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1141864011
AB  - Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.
AB  - Examines the making and unmaking of character, commencing with Balzac's impact on nineteenth century Irish fiction. This book radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history. Through painterly imagery, biblical quotation and the distortion of proper names, Dissolute Characters explores how Le Fanu shows character to be a self-consuming project. Yeats's Parnell emerges as a modernist gothic hero of the 1930s, while Bowen's 'Heat of the Day' anatomises the problems of identity, bequeathed by Yeats.
OP  - 265
NO  - Originally published: 1993.
NO  - Foreword<BR>Part One: On Literary History<BR>1. Cashiering the gothic tradition<BR>2. Between Balzac and Yeats<BR>3. Swedenborg's ghost<BR><BR>Part Two: Le Fanu and his Art<BR>4. Mediating the Past: The House by the Church-yard<BR>5. The parochial and exotic: two tales of 1891<BR>6. Beginning the English novels<BR>7. Characters beheaded with mottoes<BR>8. Towards a theory of public opinion<BR>9. 'Freezing brightness'<BR>10 Gottfried Schalcken in history and fiction<BR><BR>Part Three: The Great Enchantment<BR>11. In a Glass Darkly<BR>12. Serialism?<BR>13. Gladstone and Ascendancy: or, here we go round the upas tree<BR>14. Yeats and gothic politics<BR><BR>Part Four: Elizabeth Bowen and The Heat of the Day<BR>15. Is the novel properly entitled ...?<BR>16. Indefinite articles<BR>17. 'The neutral island in the heart of man'<BR><BR>Epilogue: The Disinherited of Literary History<BR>Index.
CN  - PR8711
SN  - 9781526125538
SN  - 1526125536
SN  - 9781526125545
SN  - 1526125544
SN  - 9780719085635
KW  - Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, : 1814-1873 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, : 1814-1873.
KW  - English literature : Irish authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Characters and characteristics in literature.
KW  - Gothic revival (Literature) : Ireland.
KW  - Ireland : In literature.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : Auteurs irlandais : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature frénétique : Irlande.
KW  - Irlande : Dans la littérature.
KW  - Literature.
KW  - Literary Studies : General.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Gothic & Romance.
KW  - Gothic revival (Literature)
KW  - English literature : Irish authors.
KW  - Ireland.
KW  - Literary studies : general.
KW  - Literature : History & criticism.
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -