It is no accident that some variation of the question'What should I do?'appears in over three-
quarters of the comedic plays of the Spanish Golden Age. Casuistical dialogue was a …

Exploring the fate of the ideal of the English gentleman once the empire he was meant to
embody declined, Praseeda Gopinath argues that the stylization of English masculinity …

This book offers a fundamental and comprehensive re-evaluation of one of Joyce's most
pervasive themes. By showing that betrayal was central to how Joyce understood and …

Abstract As the Catholic Church responded to secular models of the nineteenth-century hero
by refurbishing its saints, the Irish Church promoted its native saint, Colmcill, as the sole …

Reflects contemporary paradigm shifts in embryology and evolutionary theory through
formal experimentation in the modernist BildungsromanModernist Life Histories explores …

Abstract Ireland Beyond Boundaries provides an authoritative, up-to-date account of the
development of Irish Studies over the past two decades. The fourteen contributors examine …

In this essay, I propose to consider Joyce's encyclopedic method in Ulysses and Finnegans
Wake in light of the complex negotiation of narative closure in these texts, an aspect which …

Writing feels like a solitary, concentrated enterprise, but is actually a noisy conversation
conducted over many years. The work of imaginative writers and their interpreters joined …

Emerging at a moment of escalating colonial conflict between England and Ireland, the
figure of the Irish Celt enjoyed a long and varied career in both English and Irish literature …

An obsession with “degeneration” was a central preoccupation of modernist culture at the
start of the 20th century. Less attention has been paid to the fact that many of the key …