Sex, nation, and dissent in Irish writing / edited by E?ibhear Walshe
Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 1997. 1st edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #409870
ISBN: 1859180140
Physical description; 291 pp.; 24 cm. Contents; 'How could I fear and hold thee by the hand' : the poetry of Eva Gore Booth / Emma Donohue - Momentary pleasures : Wilde and English virtue / David Alderson - Error and Eros : the fiction of Forrest Reid as a defence of homosexuality / Colin Cruise - Lost time : the smell and taste of Castle T / Roz Cowman - Women and desire in the work of Elizabeth Bowen / Patricia Coughlan - Elizabeth Bowen : the dandy in revolt / Declan Kiberd - Sodom and begorrah, or, Game to the last : inventing Michael MacLiammoir / E?inhear Walshe - The ear of the other : dissident voices in Kate O'Brien's As music and splendour and Mary Dorcey's A noise from the woodshed / Anne Fogarty - Piggies and spoilers of girls : the representation of sexuality in the novels of Molly Keane / Mary Breen - Dearg dobhogtha Cha?in = The indelible mark of Cain : sexual dissidence in the poetry of Cathal O? Searcaigh / Lillis O? Laoire - 'Tangles' : addressing an unusual audience / David Grant - Pigs and provos, prostitutes and prejudice : gay representations in Irish film, 1984-1995 / Lance Pettit. Subjects; English literature Irish authors History and criticism. Gay people's writings, English Ireland History and criticism. National characteristics, Irish, in literature. Homosexuality and literature. Lesbians. Sex in literature.
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