The Gothic family romance : heterosexuality, child sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish colonial order / Margot Gayle Backus.

SeriesPost-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 noteLittle-325802--305131020001G
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-277) and index.
LCCN 99020689
ISBN082232380X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822324148 (paper : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR8807.F25 B33 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold