Anna Teekell is associate professor of English at Christopher Newport University.Ellen Scheible is professor of English and director of the honors program at Bridgewater State University.

• Introduction: Seeing in the Dark, Anna Teekell Essays1. "The Four-Letter Word": Censorship and "The Dark, "Frank Shovlin2. Documenting The Dark: John McGahern and the Archive, Barry Houlihan3. A Very Special Violence: John McGahern’s Biopolitical Novel, Enda Duffy 4. Reading Trauma in The Dark, Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

"Original and very much needed, given the relevance of this novel in the Irish literary canon. (Marisol Morales-Ladrón, coeditor of Deirdre Madden: New Critical Essays) This timely new edition . . . equips educators and students to understand, discuss, and address those forms of abuse that flourish under conditions of silence." —Margot Gayle Backus, coeditor of The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable

Anna Teekell is associate professor of English at Christopher Newport University.Ellen Scheible is professor of English and director of the honors program at Bridgewater State University.

• Introduction: Seeing in the Dark, Anna Teekell Essays1. "The Four-Letter Word": Censorship and "The Dark, "Frank Shovlin2. Documenting The Dark: John McGahern and the Archive, Barry Houlihan3. A Very Special Violence: John McGahern’s Biopolitical Novel, Enda Duffy 4. Reading Trauma in The Dark, Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

"Original and very much needed, given the relevance of this novel in the Irish literary canon. (Marisol Morales-Ladrón, coeditor of Deirdre Madden: New Critical Essays) This timely new edition . . . equips educators and students to understand, discuss, and address those forms of abuse that flourish under conditions of silence." —Margot Gayle Backus, coeditor of The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable

Anna Teekell is associate professor of English at Christopher Newport University.Ellen Scheible is professor of English and director of the honors program at Bridgewater State University.

• Introduction: Seeing in the Dark, Anna Teekell Essays1. "The Four-Letter Word": Censorship and "The Dark, "Frank Shovlin2. Documenting The Dark: John McGahern and the Archive, Barry Houlihan3. A Very Special Violence: John McGahern’s Biopolitical Novel, Enda Duffy 4. Reading Trauma in The Dark, Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

"Original and very much needed, given the relevance of this novel in the Irish literary canon. (Marisol Morales-Ladrón, coeditor of Deirdre Madden: New Critical Essays) This timely new edition . . . equips educators and students to understand, discuss, and address those forms of abuse that flourish under conditions of silence." —Margot Gayle Backus, coeditor of The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable