Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The novel before 1800
- 2 The national tale and allied genres, 1770s-1840s
- 3 The novel of the big house
- 4 The Gothic novel
- 5 Catholics and fiction during the Union, 1801-1922
- 6 Irish modernisms, 1880-1930
- 7 James Joyce
- 8 Region, realism and reaction, 1922-1972
- 9 The novel in Irish
- 10 Women novelists, 1930s-1960s
- 11 Two post-modern novelists: Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien
- 12 Life writing in the twentieth century
- 13 The novel and the Northern Troubles
- 14 Contemporary Irish fiction
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2007
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The novel before 1800
- 2 The national tale and allied genres, 1770s-1840s
- 3 The novel of the big house
- 4 The Gothic novel
- 5 Catholics and fiction during the Union, 1801-1922
- 6 Irish modernisms, 1880-1930
- 7 James Joyce
- 8 Region, realism and reaction, 1922-1972
- 9 The novel in Irish
- 10 Women novelists, 1930s-1960s
- 11 Two post-modern novelists: Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien
- 12 Life writing in the twentieth century
- 13 The novel and the Northern Troubles
- 14 Contemporary Irish fiction
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel , pp. 276 - 286Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006