| Description |
1 online resource |
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New directions in Irish and Irish American literature |
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New directions in Irish and Irish American literature.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800-2022 -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: The Story of Tuberculosis in Ireland: An Overview -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: The Nameless Scourge: Tuberculosis in Ireland, 1800-the Present -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: The Unspoken Menace -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Dracula, Ireland's Vampiric Vector -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: The Lingering and "The Dead": Illusion and Irony in Early Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction -- Works Cited |
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Chapter 6: Contagion and Community in Irish Fiction 1900-1942 -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Naming the Scourge and the "Sanatorium of the Imagination" -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
This book focuses on Irelands lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nations fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life. It seeks to place the history of tuberculosis in Ireland, from 1800 until after its virtual eradication in the mid-Twentieth Century, in conversation with fictional representations or repressions of a condition so fearsome that until very recently it was usually referred to by code words and euphemisms rather than by its name. Rachael Sealy Lynch, Associate Professor Emerita of English at the University of Connecticut, USA, works primarily in the field of recent and contemporary Irish women writers, and, more recently, in the medical humanities. She has published widely, with a focus on sex, stigma, and shame, on writers including Anne Enright, Jennifer Johnston, Molly Keane, Edna OBrien, Emma Donoghue, Mary Lavin, and Liam OFlaherty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
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Tuberculosis in literature.
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English fiction -- Irish authors.
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Tuberculosis in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031403453 |
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3031403452 |
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