Matter of Faith

Robert Sullivan is a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended universities in England and earned a PhD from Brown University, where he is currently a visiting assistant professor. Sullivan has also taught in Africa and at universities in the United States. He is author of Christopher Caudwell.

• Preface Acknowledgments Chronological List of Novels Introduction: A Matter of Faith Belfast: The Insular World The Climate of Ulster The Three Early Novels The Doctor's Wife Lies of Silence Forms of Self-Regard: The Irish-Americans Bridge to the New World: The Luck of Ginger Coffey An Answer From Limbo I Am Mary Dunne Fergus The Mangan Inheritance The Temptation of Giant Despair The Temptation of Eileen Hughes Cold Heaven Catholics The Color of Blood Black Robe Moore's Masterplot: The Great Victorian Collection The Novel as a Theory of Representation The Novel as a Philosophy of Form Selected Bibliography Index

"Sullivan offers the most useful single-volume study to date of the 19 novels produced by Moore over the last 40 years. . . . Sullivan's effort admirably distills Moore's technique and worth. . . . All academic collections." - Choice