| Gothic Ireland: Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century Contributor(s): Killeen, Jarlath (Author) |
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ISBN: 1851829431 ISBN-13: 9781851829439 Publisher: Four Courts Press OUR PRICE: $69.30 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2005 Annotation: This book examines the formation of Anglican identity in Ireland throughout the long 18th century. Beginning with the 1641 Rebellion, which constitutes the inaugurating event of Anglican Ireland, the book traces the convolutions of this identity through to the Act of Union in 1801. It argues that Gothicism is the basic modality in which Anglican Ireland found expression, and traces the themes and modes of Gothic writing in political tracts, philosophical pamphlets, graveyard poetry, aesthetic treatises, and Gothic novels. In linking these diffuse modes of writing through their common recourse to a Gothic language, this book produces a psycho-history of the Anglican mind. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.087 |
| LCCN: 2006272242 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.55 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - Ireland - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: This book examines the formation of Anglican identity in Ireland throughout the long, 18th century. Beginning with the 1641 Rebellion, which constitutes the inaugurating event of Anglican Ireland, the book traces the convolutions of this identity through to the Act of Union in 1801. It argues that Gothicism is the basic modality in which Anglican Ireland found expression, and traces the themes and modes of Gothic writing in political tracts, philosophical pamphlets, graveyard poetry, aesthetic treatises, and Gothic novels. In linking these diffuse modes of writing through their common recourse to a Gothic language, this book produces a psycho-history of the Anglican mind. |