
Impure Thoughts
Sexuality, Catholicism and Literature in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Michael G. Cronin(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 30. November 2012
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-7190-8613-7 (ISBN)
Description
Impure thoughts is the first study of the twentieth-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, this book offers a fresh new approach to the study of twentieth-century Irish writing and of the twentieth-century novel.
Combining the study of literature and of archival material, Impure thoughts also develops a new interpretive framework for studying the history of sexuality in twentieth-century Ireland. Addressing itself to a wide set of interdisciplinary questions about Irish sexuality, modernity and post-colonial development, as well as Irish literature, it will be of interest to students and scholars in various disciplines, including literary studies, history, sociology and gender studies. -- .
Combining the study of literature and of archival material, Impure thoughts also develops a new interpretive framework for studying the history of sexuality in twentieth-century Ireland. Addressing itself to a wide set of interdisciplinary questions about Irish sexuality, modernity and post-colonial development, as well as Irish literature, it will be of interest to students and scholars in various disciplines, including literary studies, history, sociology and gender studies. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-8613-7 (9780719086137)
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Person
Michael G. Cronin is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth -- .
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Going to Tara via Vienna: Joyce and the Freudian Bildungsroman
2. Growing Pains: sexuality, Irish moral politics and capitalist crisis, 1920-1940
3. Kate O'Brien and the erotics of liberal Catholic dissent
4. Married Bliss: sexuality, Catholicism and modernisation in Ireland, 1940-1965
5. Sex and the Country: the rural Bildungsromane of Maura Laverty and Patrick Kavanagh
6. Arrested Development: sexuality, trauma and history in John McGahern and Edna O'Brien
Conclusion
Bibliography -- .
Introduction
1. Going to Tara via Vienna: Joyce and the Freudian Bildungsroman
2. Growing Pains: sexuality, Irish moral politics and capitalist crisis, 1920-1940
3. Kate O'Brien and the erotics of liberal Catholic dissent
4. Married Bliss: sexuality, Catholicism and modernisation in Ireland, 1940-1965
5. Sex and the Country: the rural Bildungsromane of Maura Laverty and Patrick Kavanagh
6. Arrested Development: sexuality, trauma and history in John McGahern and Edna O'Brien
Conclusion
Bibliography -- .