Chapter 11 Irish Women Writers and the Supernatural

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction: Exorcising the Dead, Summoning the Living 1
6. Part I Irish Gothic in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
7. Chapter 1 ‘Quitting the Plain and Useful Path of History and Fact’: Early Irish Gothic and the Literary Marketplace 29
8. Chapter 2 ‘How Mute Their Tongues’: Irish Gothic Poetry in the Nineteenth Century 46
9. Part II Irish Gothic Genres and Forms
10. Chapter 3 ‘A Dead, Living, Murdered Man’: Staging the Irish Gothic 65
11. Chapter 4 Gothic Forms in Irish Cinema 83
12. Chapter 5 Gothic Fiction and Irish Children’s Literature 98
13. Chapter 6 Irish Ecogothic 114
14. Chapter 7 Gothic Fiction in the Irish Language 135
15. Part III Irish Gothic, Theology, and Confessional Identities
16. Chapter 8 Protestant Gothic 153
17. Chapter 9 Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Irish Dimension 174
18. Chapter 10 Irish Catholic Writers and the Gothic: Situating Thomas Furlong’s The Doom of Derenzie (1829) 194
19. Part IV Irish Gothic Writers: Gender and Sexuality
20. Chapter 11 Irish Women Writers and the Supernatural 213
21. Chapter 12 Reflection, Anxiety and the Feminised Body: Contemporary Irish Gothic 232
22. Chapter 13 Foreign Bodies, Irish Voices: Gothic Masculinities in Irish Literature, Film and Radio Drama 252
23. Notes on Contributors 272
24. Index 276