| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Impure thoughts: Sexuality, Catholicism and literature in twentieth-century Ireland -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Going to Tara via Vienna: Joyce andthe Freudian Bildungsroman -- 2 Growing pains: sexuality, Irish moral politics and capitalist crisis,1920-40 -- 3 Kate O'Brien and the erotics of liberal Catholic dissent -- 4 Married bliss: sexuality,Catholicism and modernisation inIreland, 1940-65 -- 5 Sex and the country: the rural Bildungsromane of Maura Lavertyand Patrick Kavanagh -- 6 Arrested development: sexuality,trauma and history in Edna O'Brienand John McGahern -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book studies the 20th-century Irish Catholic Bildungsroman. This comparative examination of six Irish novelists tracks the historical evolution of a literary genre and its significant role in Irish culture, with chapters on James Joyce and Kate O'Brien, along with studies of Maura Laverty, Patrick Kavanagh, Edna O'Brien and John McGahern |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr 12, 2013) |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Irish authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Bildungsromans, English -- Ireland -- History and criticism
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Catholics in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Bildungsromans, English
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Catholics in literature
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English fiction -- Irish authors
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Sex in literature
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Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781781704707 |
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1781704708 |
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152612985X |
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9781526129857 |
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