The Gothic family romance : heterosexuality, child sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish colonial order / Margot Gayle Backus.
| Author/creator | Backus, Margot Gayle, 1961- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, ©1999. |
| Description | xi, 291 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Post-contemporary interventions Post-contemporary interventions. ^A242178 |
| Contents | The other half of the story: English and Irish social formations, 1550-1700 -- "Does she not deserve to pay for all this?" Compulsory romance in the constricting family cell -- "Something valuable of their own": children, reproduction, and irony in Swift, Burke, and Edgeworth -- "A very strange agony": parables of sexual subject formation in Melmoth the wanderer, Carmilla, and Dracula -- Irish gothic realism and the Great War: the devil's bargain and the demon lover -- Somebody else's troubles: post-treaty retrenchment and the (burning) Big House novel -- "Perhaps I may come alive": Mother Ireland and the unfinished revolution. |
| Local note | Little-325802--305131020001G |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-277) and index. |
| LCCN | 99020689 |
| ISBN | 082232380X (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822324148 (paper : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR8807.F25 B33 1999 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |