Impure thoughts : Sexuality, Catholicism and literature in twentieth-century Ireland /

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Impure Thoughts is the first study of the twentieth-century Irish Catholic bildungsroman. This comparative examination of six Irish novelists tracks the historical evolution of a literary genre and its significant role in Irish culture. With chapters on James Joyce and Kate O'Brien, along with...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cronin, Michael G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sex in literature.
Self in literature.
Catholics in literature.
Christianity and literature > Ireland.
Bildungsromans, English > Ireland > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > Irish authors > History and criticism.
Ireland > Politics and government > 20th century.
Ireland > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Going to Tara via Vienna: Joyce and the Freudian Bildungsroman
  • Growing Pains: sexuality, Irish moral politics and capitalist crisis, 1920-1940
  • Kate O'Brien and the erotics of liberal Catholic dissent
  • Married Bliss: sexuality, Catholicism and modernisation in Ireland, 1940-1965
  • Sex and the Country: the rural Bildungsromane of Maura Laverty and Patrick Kavanagh
  • Arrested Development: sexuality, trauma and history in John McGahern and Edna O'Brien.

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