Gothic Ireland : horror and the Irish Anglican imagination in the long eighteenth century / Jarlath Killeen.
Material type: TextPublication details: Dublin : Four Courts, c2005.Description: 240 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1851829431
- 9781851829439
- 306.1 GOT
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This book examines the formation of Anglican identity in Ireland throughout the long, 18th century. Beginning with the 1641 Rebellion, which constitutes the inaugurating event of Anglican Ireland, the book traces the convolutions of this identity through to the Act of Union in 1801. It argues that Gothicism is the basic modality in which Anglican Ireland found expression, and traces the themes and modes of Gothic writing in political tracts, philosophical pamphlets, graveyard poetry, aesthetic treatises, and Gothic novels. In linking these diffuse modes of writing through their common recourse to a Gothic language, this book produces a psycho-history of the Anglican mind.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.
Irish historiography and the Gothic -- Making monsters : creating the Catholic other in Sir John Temple\'s mythology of the 1641 rebellion -- Breaking stories : religion, identity, and the emergence of narrative instability in post-revolutionary Ireland -- Consuming bodies : transubstantiation, incarnation, and the politics of cannibalism in Jonathan Swift -- Ordering spaces : Edmund Burke\'s Philosophical enquiry and the sacramentality of the landscape -- Remembering history : public memory, commemoration, and necrophilia -- Building bridges : Maria Edgeworth\'s Castle Rackrent and the Gothic mansion.
This book is a study of Anglican culture in Ireland from 1641 to the end of the eighteenth century, approached through a literary analysis of some of the most important texts written in the period. It argues that a Gothic aesthetic infiltrated that culture as the most powerful way to express the peculiarities of Anglicans\' hybrid identity. It also argues that the Irish Gothic is best understood as a theological genre. This book helps to provide insights into modern Irish culture, and to restore religion to its proper position as crucial to Irish Studies. Moreover it reclaims some of the most important texts for understanding Anglican Ireland, texts that have been ignored or marginalized since the middle of the nineteenth century.--BOOK JACKET.