Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction

Ellen Scheible is Professor of English and coordinator of Irish Studies at Bridgewater State University, USA.

Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction forms an important contribution to academic discourse on the literary representation of women in twentieth and twenty-first century Irish fiction, especially as it ties nation-building to a familial and fundamental part of society, the domestic interior.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Body Politics 1. Mirroring and the Female Body in James Joyce 2. The Danger of the Domestic in Ireland: Bridget Cleary, Big House Modernism, and Tana French 3. Reflection, Anxiety, and the Feminized Body: Contemporary Irish Gothic 4. Bildung and the Non-reproductive Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing 5. “And There Was One Less Person in the Room”: Popularity, Empathy, and Victimization in Tana French’s The Witch Elm 6. Normal People, Then and Now: James Joyce and Sally Rooney Coda: Man’s Old Home Bibliography Index