Corpse in Modern Irish Literature

Christopher Cusack (Radboud University) has published widely on Irish and Irish-diasporic literature. His monograph The Great Famine in Irish and North American Fiction, 1892-1921 is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.Bridget English (University of Illinois at Chicago) is the author of Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel and a co-editor of Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism.Matthew L. Reznicek is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he co-coordinates the Certificate for Arts and Humanities in Medicine. He has published widely on Irish literature from the long nineteenth century. He currently serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine.

• 1. IntroductionChristopher Cusack, Bridget English, and Matthew ReznicekThe Corpse in Modern Irish LiteratureII. Reframing the Corpse2. Elegies in Irish Country Churchyards: James Orr, Thomas Dermody, and Sympathetic CorpsesColleen English3. ‘Why do you bring your dead bodies littering here?’: The Corpse and the Comic Gothic in Romantic-Era Irish Women’s WritingChristina Morin4. Between Epidemic and Endemic Deaths: Death and the State in The Wild Irish GirlMatthew L. ReznicekIII. Revitalizing the Corpse5. The Corpse in Irish Folklore and Drama: Douglas Hyde and John Millington SyngeMichael McAteer6. The Ethics of Dust: The Speaking Cadaver in Modern and Contemporary Irish-Language PoetryDaniela Theinová7. ‘She had never seen a dead person’: Corpses and Spiritual Transformation in Kate O’BrienMargaret O’Neill8. James Joyce’s ‘The Sisters’: Irish Modernism and the Sexually Pathological CorpseLloyd Meadhbh HoustonIV. Familial Corpses9. Collapsing Flesh and Wasted Bodies: Maternal Corpses and Septic Irish ModernismBridget English10. Post-Celtic Tiger Fiction and the Remains of Irish HistoryChristopher Cusack11. ‘Puppeting It Back to Life’: Corpses, Motherhood, and Authorship in Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the ThroatKathleen Costello-SullivanV. Unquiet Remains12. Corpses, Cadavers, and Unquiet Remains in Marina Carr’s On Raftery’s Hill and ArielJosé Lanters13. Antigone’s Daughters: Gender, Reproduction, and the Politics of the DeadSinéad Kennedy14. The ‘Problem’ of the Unbaptized Corpse: Mary Leland’s The KilleenMary M. Burke15. Haunting the Troubles: The Missing Body in David Park’s The Truth CommissionerMindi McMann16. AfterwordJoe Cleary

‘This is a very worthwhile read on these issues, helped by constructive editing and clear writing... I found all of the contributions of a high standard and mercifully free of academic jargon overkill.’ John Kirkaldy, Books Ireland