Deirdre Madden

Anne Fogarty is Professor of James Joyce Studies at University College DublinMarisol Morales-Ladrón is Professor of English and Irish literature at the University of Alcalá

• Preface: Deirdre Madden: a jagged symmetry – Frank McGuinnessIntroduction – Anne Fogarty and Marisol Morales-LadrónPart I: Memory, trauma, and the Troubles1 ‘Images … at the absolute edge of memory’: memory and temporality in Hidden Symptoms, One by One in the Darkness, and Time Present and Time Past – Stefanie Lehner2 ‘The horror of little details’: remembering the Troubles in Hidden Symptoms and One by One in the Darkness – Elisabeth Chase3 Journeying through loss: transcendence and healing in Deirdre Madden’s Hidden Symptoms – Catriona Clutterbuck4 Class and multiplicity in One by One in the Darkness – Brian CliffPart II: Art and objects5 Objects in Deirdre Madden’s artist novels – Sylvie Mikowski6 Ageing and identity in Deirdre Madden’s Authenticity – Heather Ingman7 Sensing one’s way forward: psychological aspects of creativity in Deirdre Madden’s Authenticity – Hedwig Schwall8 ‘What can we do, what does art do?’: ethics and aesthetics in Deirdre Madden’s Hidden Symptoms, One by One in the Darkness and Molly Fox’s Birthday – Teresa Casal9 Looking at animals and objects in Deirdre Madden’s children’s books and some adult fiction – Julie Anne StevensPart III: Home and place10 Nothing is Black: the early Celtic Tiger and Europe – Jerry White11 Imaginaries of home in Deirdre Madden’s fiction – Elke D’hoker12 The architectural uncanny: family secrets and the Gothic in The Birds of the Innocent Wood and Remembering Light and Stone – Anne Fogarty13 Living lives: Deirdre Madden’s Authenticity, Molly Fox’s Birthday, Time Present and Time Past and the Irish Celtic Tiger novel – Derek Hand14 In conversation with Deirdre Madden – Marisol Morales-LadrónIndex

'The essays gathered in this exemplary and fascinating collection analyse... many... themes woven through Deirdre Madden’s work.'The Irish Times'New Critical Perspectives is a scholarly masterpiece, a map into “Madden’s creative world” and a timely contribution to the study of one of the most important literary voices in contemporary Ireland.'Estudios Irlandeses