Ellen Scheible is Professor of English and coordinator of Irish Studies at Bridgewater State University, USA.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Body Politics 1. Mirroring and the Female Body in James Joyce 2. The Danger of the Domestic in Ireland: Bridget Cleary, Big House Modernism, and Tana French 3. Reflection, Anxiety, and the Feminized Body: Contemporary Irish Gothic 4. Bildung and the Non-reproductive Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing 5. “And There Was One Less Person in the Room”: Popularity, Empathy, and Victimization in Tana French’s The Witch Elm 6. Normal People, Then and Now: James Joyce and Sally Rooney Coda: Man’s Old Home Bibliography Index

Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction forms an important contribution to academic discourse on the literary representation of women in twentieth and twenty-first century Irish fiction, especially as it ties nation-building to a familial and fundamental part of society, the domestic interior.

Ellen Scheible is Professor of English and coordinator of Irish Studies at Bridgewater State University, USA.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Body Politics 1. Mirroring and the Female Body in James Joyce 2. The Danger of the Domestic in Ireland: Bridget Cleary, Big House Modernism, and Tana French 3. Reflection, Anxiety, and the Feminized Body: Contemporary Irish Gothic 4. Bildung and the Non-reproductive Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing 5. “And There Was One Less Person in the Room”: Popularity, Empathy, and Victimization in Tana French’s The Witch Elm 6. Normal People, Then and Now: James Joyce and Sally Rooney Coda: Man’s Old Home Bibliography Index

Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction forms an important contribution to academic discourse on the literary representation of women in twentieth and twenty-first century Irish fiction, especially as it ties nation-building to a familial and fundamental part of society, the domestic interior.

Ellen Scheible is Professor of English and coordinator of Irish Studies at Bridgewater State University, USA.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Body Politics 1. Mirroring and the Female Body in James Joyce 2. The Danger of the Domestic in Ireland: Bridget Cleary, Big House Modernism, and Tana French 3. Reflection, Anxiety, and the Feminized Body: Contemporary Irish Gothic 4. Bildung and the Non-reproductive Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing 5. “And There Was One Less Person in the Room”: Popularity, Empathy, and Victimization in Tana French’s The Witch Elm 6. Normal People, Then and Now: James Joyce and Sally Rooney Coda: Man’s Old Home Bibliography Index

Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction forms an important contribution to academic discourse on the literary representation of women in twentieth and twenty-first century Irish fiction, especially as it ties nation-building to a familial and fundamental part of society, the domestic interior.