Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007 is
the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and
challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years.
Meticulously researched, it presents detailed interpretations of
novels by some of Ireland’s most eminent writers.
* This is the first text-focused critical survey of the Irish
novel from 1987 to 2007, providing detailed readings of 11 seminal
Irish novels
* A timely and much needed text in a largely uncharted critical
field
* Provides detailed interpretations of individual novels by some
of the country’s most critically celebrated writers,
including Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Patrick
Mc Cabe, John Mc Gahern, Edna O’Brien and Colm
Tóibín
* Investigates the ways in which Irish novels have sought to deal
with and reflect a changing Ireland
* The fruit of many years reading, teaching and research on the
subject by a leading and highly respected academic in the
field
Table des matières
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel
1987-2007 1
1 In the Family Way: Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy
(1987-1991) 23
2 House Arrest: John Mc Gahern’s Amongst Women (1990)
51
3 Malignant Shame: Patrick Mc Cabe’s The Butcher Boy (1992)
75
4 Uncertain Terms, Unstable Sands: Colm T´
oib´yn’s The Heather Blazing (1992) 105
5 Unbearable Proximities:William Trevor’s Felicia’s
Journey (1994) 127
6 History’s Hostages: Edna O’Brien’s House of
Splendid Isolation (1994) 151
7 Shadows in the Air: Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark
(1996) 173
8 The Politics of Pity: Sebastian Barry’s A Long Long Way
(2005) 197
9 Mourning Remains Unresolved: Anne Enright’s The
Gathering (2007) 217
Bibliography 243
Index 259
A propos de l’auteur
Liam Harte is Senior Lecturer in Irish and Modern
Literature at the University of Manchester. He is the author or
editor of seven books, including Contemporary Irish Fiction:
Themes, Tropes, Theories (2000; co-edited with Michael Parker),
Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the
Twenty-First Century (2007; co-edited with Yvonne Whelan) and
Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society (2007).
His The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and
Memoir, 1725-2001 (2009) was a Book of the Year in both
the Times Literary Supplement and the Irish
Independent, and appeared as a Palgrave Macmillan paperback in
2011.
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