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The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order
Margot Backus
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Description for The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order
Paperback. Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. This book shows how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries reflect the destructive effects of imperialism on the children. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
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.
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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.
... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Post-Contemporary Interventions
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822324140
SKU
V9780822324140
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About Margot Backus
Margot Gayle Backus is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston.
Reviews for The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order
“A compelling history of the Anglo-Irish gothic tradition that is ambitious, convincing, and valuable.”—Mary Favret, Indiana University “Backus’s fresh and unexpected insights into Irish Gothic texts along with the sophisticated and contemporary theoretical base of her argument should ensure this book an important place in Irish studies.”—Ann Owens Weekes, University of Arizona “With extraordinary analytic clarity, Margot Backus sifts the ... Read more