Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Illustrations ix
5. Notes on Contributors xii
6. Introduction: Out of Ireland 1
7. Part I Heresies of Time and Space
8. 1 Rising Timely and Untimely: On Joycean Anachronism 33
9. 2 Temporal Powers: Second Sight, the Future and Celtic Modernity 51
10. 3 Waking from History: The Nation’s Past and Future in FINNEGANS WAKE 67
11. 4 W. B. Yeats’s THE DREAMING OF THE BONES and the Limits of Global Modernism 82
12. 5 Borderation: Fictions of the Northern Irish Border 96
13. 6 Hereseas: Water in English and Irish Modernism 112
14. Part II Heresies of Nationalism
15. 7 ‘A Fairy Boy of Eleven, a Changeling, Kidnapped, Dressed in an Eton Suit’: Precarious, Lost and Recovered Children in Anglophone Irish Modernism 129
16. 8 Legacies of Land and Soil: Irish Drama, European Integration and the Unfinished Business of Modernism 147
17. 9 Ireland’s Philatelic Modernism 165
18. 10 Modernism Against / For the Nation: Joycean Echoes in Postwar Taiwan 182
19. 11 Rage’s Brother: The Bomb at the Centre of Wilde’s Trivial Comedy 200
20. Part III Aesthetic Heresies
21. 12 Modern Irish Poetry and the Heresy of Modernism 217
22. 13 Modernist Heresies: Irish Visual Culture and the Arts and Crafts Movement 234
23. 14 The Insurgent Romance and Early Cinema in Ireland 252
24. 15 ‘Put “Molotoff bread-basket” into Irish, please’: CRUISKEEN LAWN, Dada and the Blitz 268
25. 16 Irish Christian Comedy: Heresy or Reform? 284
26. Part IV Heresies of Gender and Sexuality
27. 17 The Irish Bachelor 299
28. 18 ‘Purity, Piety, and Simplicity’: Heretical Images of the Female, Catholic Reader in Irish Modernism 320
29. 19 ‘Stolen fruit is best of all’: The Pleasures of Subversive Consumption in the Late Novels of Molly Keane 336
30. 20 ‘Stories Are a Different Kind of True’: Gender and Narrative Agency in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction 351
31. 21 Challenging the Iconic Feminine in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 368
32. Part V Critical Heresies
33. 22 ‘A form that accommodates the mess’: Degeneration and / as Disability in Beckett’s HAPPY DAYS 385
34. 23 Jumping Cats and Living Handkerchiefs: The Queer and Comic Non-Human World of Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction 405
35. 24 Theorising Irish-Language Modernism: Voicing Precarity 421
36. 25 Affective Alchemy: W. B. Yeats and the Transformative Heresy of Joy 437
37. 26 Watery Modernism? Mike McCormack’s SOLAR BONES and W. B. Yeats’s JOHN SHERMAN 452
38. Index 470