Jim Hansen is Assistant Professor of English and Critical Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

"Jim Hansen's Terror and Irish Modernism: The Gothic Tradition from Burke to Beckett displays boldness and breadth. It confidently ranges over the Irish Gothic tradition from the eighteenth century to the fiction of Samuel Beckett … Hansen offers more than a few intriguing and resonant insights." — James Joyce Quarterly"…a complex reading of how Ireland's political history has informed the tradition of Irish gothic fiction and how that tradition then informed Irish modernist texts … Using Hegelian dialectics, postcolonial hybridity, and abject maternal identity, Hansen chronicles how characters, and sometimes authors, attempt to escape confinement and gain autonomy." — CHOICE

• Acknowledgments1. Gothic Double Binds, Or, Irish Terrorists Confront an Unholy Union2. The Wrong Marriage: Maturin and the Double Logic of Masculinity in the Unionist Gothic3. The Revolution Within: Wilde’s Gothic and the Confi nes of Convention4. Overcoming Allegory: Joyce’s Ulysses and the Limits of the Irish Gothic5. Engendering a Cartesian Gothic: Generic Form as History in Beckett’s FictionEPILOGUEThe Poetics of Fear: Gothic Inheritance at the End of ModernityNotesBibliographyIndex

Jim Hansen is Assistant Professor of English and Critical Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

"Jim Hansen's Terror and Irish Modernism: The Gothic Tradition from Burke to Beckett displays boldness and breadth. It confidently ranges over the Irish Gothic tradition from the eighteenth century to the fiction of Samuel Beckett … Hansen offers more than a few intriguing and resonant insights." — James Joyce Quarterly"…a complex reading of how Ireland's political history has informed the tradition of Irish gothic fiction and how that tradition then informed Irish modernist texts … Using Hegelian dialectics, postcolonial hybridity, and abject maternal identity, Hansen chronicles how characters, and sometimes authors, attempt to escape confinement and gain autonomy." — CHOICE

• Acknowledgments1. Gothic Double Binds, Or, Irish Terrorists Confront an Unholy Union2. The Wrong Marriage: Maturin and the Double Logic of Masculinity in the Unionist Gothic3. The Revolution Within: Wilde’s Gothic and the Confi nes of Convention4. Overcoming Allegory: Joyce’s Ulysses and the Limits of the Irish Gothic5. Engendering a Cartesian Gothic: Generic Form as History in Beckett’s FictionEPILOGUEThe Poetics of Fear: Gothic Inheritance at the End of ModernityNotesBibliographyIndex