Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston is SSHRC-CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Alberta and Associate Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Their research explores the cultural politics of sexual health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and has been featured in publications including the Review of English Studies, the Journal of Medical Humanities, and the Irish Times.

With Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health, Lloyd Meadhbh Houston can be said to have done medical historians and scholars of Irish literature a profound service.

• Introduction: Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health Part I: Scandalous Autonomy 1: 'Bred out of the contagion of the throng': Irish Modernism, Sexual Health, and the Parnell Myth 2: 'Survival of the unfittest': Synge, Yeats, and the Rhetoric of Health Part II: Hygiene and its Discontents 3: 'Their syphilisation you mean': Irish Modernism and the Politics of Venereal Disease Part III: Heredity and Fertility 4: 'Sterilization of the mind and apotheosis of the litter': Beckett, Censorship, and Fertility 5: 'But perhaps this new child will be perfect!': Kate O'Brien's Eugenic Romances Part IV: Sexual Health and Exhaustion 6: 'Veni, V.D., Vici!': Flann O'Brien, Sexual Health, and the Exhaustion of Irish Modernism

Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston is SSHRC-CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Alberta and Associate Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Their research explores the cultural politics of sexual health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and has been featured in publications including the Review of English Studies, the Journal of Medical Humanities, and the Irish Times.

With Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health, Lloyd Meadhbh Houston can be said to have done medical historians and scholars of Irish literature a profound service.

• Introduction: Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health Part I: Scandalous Autonomy 1: 'Bred out of the contagion of the throng': Irish Modernism, Sexual Health, and the Parnell Myth 2: 'Survival of the unfittest': Synge, Yeats, and the Rhetoric of Health Part II: Hygiene and its Discontents 3: 'Their syphilisation you mean': Irish Modernism and the Politics of Venereal Disease Part III: Heredity and Fertility 4: 'Sterilization of the mind and apotheosis of the litter': Beckett, Censorship, and Fertility 5: 'But perhaps this new child will be perfect!': Kate O'Brien's Eugenic Romances Part IV: Sexual Health and Exhaustion 6: 'Veni, V.D., Vici!': Flann O'Brien, Sexual Health, and the Exhaustion of Irish Modernism

Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston is SSHRC-CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Alberta and Associate Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Their research explores the cultural politics of sexual health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and has been featured in publications including the Review of English Studies, the Journal of Medical Humanities, and the Irish Times.

With Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health, Lloyd Meadhbh Houston can be said to have done medical historians and scholars of Irish literature a profound service.

• Introduction: Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health Part I: Scandalous Autonomy 1: 'Bred out of the contagion of the throng': Irish Modernism, Sexual Health, and the Parnell Myth 2: 'Survival of the unfittest': Synge, Yeats, and the Rhetoric of Health Part II: Hygiene and its Discontents 3: 'Their syphilisation you mean': Irish Modernism and the Politics of Venereal Disease Part III: Heredity and Fertility 4: 'Sterilization of the mind and apotheosis of the litter': Beckett, Censorship, and Fertility 5: 'But perhaps this new child will be perfect!': Kate O'Brien's Eugenic Romances Part IV: Sexual Health and Exhaustion 6: 'Veni, V.D., Vici!': Flann O'Brien, Sexual Health, and the Exhaustion of Irish Modernism