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Margot Gayle Backus |
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Literary Criticism · Psychology |
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Format: Hardcover, 291
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (October 01, 1999)
Measurements: 9.25"(h) x 6.25"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.45 lbs.
ISBN: 9780822323808 |
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Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. Such recurring tropes are examined in this pioneering study by Margot Gayle Backus to show how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries reflect the destructive effects of imperialism on the children and later descendents of Protestant English settlers in Ireland. Backus uses contemporary theory, including that of Michel Foucault and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, to analyze texts by authors ranging from Richardson, Swift, Burke, Edgeworth, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary Irish novelists and playwrights. By charting the changing relations between the family and the British state, she shows how these authors dramatized a legacy of violence within the family cell and discusses how disturbing themes of child sacrifice and colonial repression are portrayed through irony, satire, "paranoid" fantasy, and gothic romance. In a reconceptualizatio |
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