Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century

JENNIFER M. JEFFERS is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Cleveland State University. She has edited a collection of critical essays on Samuel Beckett's drama, Samuel Beckett: A Casebook, and co-edited with H. Gene Blocker an aesthetics and critical theory reader, Contextualizing Aesthetics: From Plato to Lyotard). She has another book in press Uncharted Space: The End of Narrative.

• Introduction The Politics of Gender, Bodies and Power Irish Identity: Heterosexual Norms Bodies over the Boundary Immeasurable Distance Velocity and Power Conclusion

'...an efficient instrument for its combination of historical, theoretical, and textual analysis.' - Choice'The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century is an interesting read for students of Irish literary studies, in that it explores the construction of gender and sexuality in novels written in Ireland in the last twelve years.' - Nessa Cronin, Irish Studies Review