![]() | Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel Subjects: English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Psychic trauma in literature; Collective memory in literature; The desire to engage and confront traumatic subjects was a facet of Irish literature for much of the twentieth century. Yet, just as Irish society has adopted a more direct and open approach to the past, so too have Irish authors evolved in their response to, and literary uses of, trauma. Kathleen Costello-Sullivan is professor of modern Irish literature at Le Moyne College. She is the author of Mother/Country: Politics of the Personal in the Fiction of Colm Tóibín and editor of Carmilla: A Critical Edition and a critical edition of Poor Women by Norah Hoult . |
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