Impure Thoughts: Sexuality, Catholicism and Literature in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Author:   Michael G. Cronin ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9780719086137


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 November 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Impure Thoughts: Sexuality, Catholicism and Literature in Twentieth-Century Ireland


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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. -- .

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Author:   Michael G. Cronin ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780719086137


ISBN 10:   0719086132
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 November 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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 -- .

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Michael G. Cronin is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth

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