Impure thoughts: Sexuality, Catholicism and literature in twentieth-century Ireland

Michael G. Cronin

doi:10.7765/9781526129857

This book studies the twentieth-century Irish Catholic Bildungsroman. This comparative examination of six Irish novelists tracks the historical evolution of a literary genre and its significant role in Irish culture. With chapters on James Joyce and Kate O'Brien, along with studies of Maura Laverty, Patrick Kavanagh, Edna O'Brien and John McGahern, this book offers a fresh new approach to the study of twentieth-century Irish writing and of the twentieth-century novel. Combining the study of literature and of archival material, the book also develops a new interpretive framework for studying the history of sexuality in twentieth-century Ireland. The book addresses itself to a wide set of interdisciplinary questions about Irish sexuality, modernity and post-colonial development, as well as Irish literature.

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Sexuality, Catholicism and literature in twentieth-century Ireland

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Front matter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-21

1 - Going to Tara via Vienna: Joyce and the Freudian Bildungsroman
pp 22-47

2 - Growing pains: Sexuality, Irish moral politics and capitalist crisis,1920–40
pp 48-81

3 - Kate O’Brien and the erotics of liberal Catholic dissent
pp 82-113

4 - Married bliss: Sexuality, Catholicism and modernisation in Ireland, 1940–65
pp 114-146

5 - Sex and the country: The rural Bildungsromane of Maura Laverty and Patrick Kavanagh
pp 147-175

6 - Arrested development: Sexuality, trauma and history in Edna O’Brien and John McGahern
pp 176-209

Conclusion
pp 210-221

Bibliography
pp 222-239

Index
pp 240-244

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