Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism

Maud Ellmann is Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago. Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment, and Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism. She has also published widely on modern literature and literary theory, feminism, and deconstruction. Sian White is Associate Professor of English at James Madison University. She is the author of a range of published journal articles including 'Spatial Politics/Poetics, Late Modernism and Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September', Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 49.1 (2016): 27-50; 'Ulysses, the Poetics of Tragedy, and A New Mimesis', PLL: Papers on Language and Literature 51.4 (2015): 334-72; and 'An Aesthetics of Unintimacy: Narrative Complexity in Elizabeth Bowen's Style', JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 45.1 (Winter 2015), 79-104. Vicki Mahaffey is the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor of Englishat the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her publications include Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions (Basil Blackwell, 2007); States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Experiment (Oxford University Press, 1998); and Reauthorizing Joyce (University Press of Florida, 1995).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Out of Ireland - Maud EllmannPart I: Heresies of Time and Space1. Rising Timely and Untimely: On Joycean Anachronism - Paul Saint-Amour2. Temporal Powers: Second Sight, the Future, and Celtic Modernity - Luke Gibbons3. Waking from History: The Nation’s Past and Future in Finnegans Wake - Jeremy Colangelo4. W.B. Yeats’s The Dreaming of the Bones and the Limits of Global Modernism - Cóilín Parsons5. Borderation: Fictions of the Northern Irish Border - Maud Ellmann6. Hereseas: Water in English and Irish Modernism - Nels PearsonPart II: Heresies of Nationalism 7. ‘A Fairy Boy of Eleven, a Changeling, Kidnapped, Dressed in an Eton Suit’: Precarious, Lost, and Recovered Children in Anglophone Irish Modernism - Margot Backus8. Legacies of Land and Soil: Irish Drama, European Integration, and the Unfinished Business of Modernism - Sarah Townsend9. Ireland’s Philatelic Modernism - Julieann Veronica Ulin10. Modernism against/for the Nation: Joycean Echoes in Post-War Taiwan - Shan-Yun Huang11. Rage’s Brother: The Bomb at the Center of Wilde’s Trivial Comedy - Kathryn ConradPartIII: Aesthetic Heresies12. Modern Irish Poetry and the Heresy of Modernism - Eric Falci13. Modernist Heresies: Irish Visual Culture and the Arts and Crafts movement - Kelly Sullivan14. The Insurgent Romance and Early Cinema in Ireland - Matthew Brown 15. ‘Put "Molotoff bread-basket" into Irish, please’: Cruiskeen Lawn, Dada and the Blitz - Catherine Flynn16. Irish Christian Comedy: Heresy or Reform? - Vicki MahaffeyPart IV: Heresies of Gender and Sexuality17. The Irish Bachelor - Ed Madden18. ‘Purity, Piety, and Simplicity’: Heretical Images of the Female Catholic Reader in Irish Modernism - T.J. Boynton19. ‘Stolen fruit is best of all’: The Pleasures of Subversive Consumption in the Late Novels of Molly Keane - Lauren Rich20. ‘Stories Are A Different Kind of True’: Gender and Narrative Agency in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction - Siân White21. Challenging the Iconic Feminine in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - Ailbhe DarcyPart V: Critical Heresies22. ‘A form that accommodates the mess’: Degeneration and/as Disability in Beckett’s Happy Days - Seán Kennedy and Joseph Valente23. Jumping Cats and Living Handkerchiefs: The Queer and Comic Non-Human World of Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction - Maureen O’Connor24. Theorising Irish-Language Modernism: Voicing Precarity - Sarah McKibben25. Affective Alchemy: W. B. Yeats and the Heresy of Joy - Wendy Truran26. Watery modernism? Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones and W. B. Yeats’s John Sherman - Claire ConnollyIndex

This outstanding collection of ‘critical heresies’ on Irish modernism transforms and reshapes our understanding of Irish Literature just as it will impact dynamically on modernism studies at large.