Irish Gothic

Jarlath Killeen is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He has published extensively on Irish gothic fiction, including Gothic Ireland (2005), and The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). His most recent monograph is Imagining the Irish Child: Discourses of Childhood in Irish Anglican Writing of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2023). Christina Morin is a Senior Lecturer in English and Assistant Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Limerick. She is the author of The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829 (2018) and Charles Robert Maturin and the Haunting of Irish Romantic Fiction (2011). She is co-editor of Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century (with Marguérite Corporaal, 2017) and Irish Gothics: Genres, Forms, Modes and Traditions (with Niall Gillespie, 2014). She is currently editing, with Ellen Scheible, a special issue of the Irish University Review on 'Irish Gothic Studies Today'.

This outstanding collection fulfils the urgent need for a throughgoing reconsideration of the Irish gothic across genres, genders, periods, and confessional communities. Not only have the editors radically and expansively redefined the Irish gothic, but by resituating the gothic in relation to Irish and British literary history, they have productively redefined the genre itself. Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion represents an authoritative departure that simultaneously offers a broad account of the scholarship that heretofore defined the field.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Exorcising the Dead, Summoning the Living – Jarlath Killeen and Christina MorinPart I: Irish Gothic in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries1. ‘Quitting the Plain and Useful Path of History and Fact’: Early Irish Gothic and the Literary Marketplace – Christina Morin2. ‘How Mute their Tongues’: Irish Gothic Poetry in the Nineteenth Century – Julia M. WrightPart II: Irish Gothic Genres and Forms3. ‘A Dead, Living, Murdered Man’: Staging the Irish Gothic – Christopher Morash4. Gothic Forms in Irish Cinema – Michael Gillespie5. Gothic Fiction and Irish Children’s Literature – Anne Markey6. Irish Ecogothic – Eóin Flannery7. Gothic Fiction in the Irish Language – Jack FennellPart III: Irish Gothic, Theology, and Confessional Identities8. Protestant Gothic – Alison Milbank9. Bram Stoker, Dracula, and the Irish Dimension – Jarlath Killeen10. Men and Woman in Cloaks: Irish Catholic Writers and the Gothic – Sinéad SturgeonPart IV: Irish Gothic Writers: Gender and Sexuality11. Irish Women Writers and the Supernatural – Melissa Edmundson12. Reflection, Anxiety, and the Feminised Body: Contemporary Irish Gothic – Ellen Scheible13. Foreign Bodies, Irish Voices: Gothic Masculinities in Irish Literature, Film, and Radio Drama – Sorcha de BrúnNotes on ContributorsIndex