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This book examines the ways in which ideas about children,
childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing
of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on
different varieties of the child found in the work of a range of
Irish Protestant writers, theologians, philosophers,
educationalists, politicians and parents from the early seventeenth
century up to the outbreak of the 1798 Rebellion. The book is
structured around a detailed examination of six 'versions' of the
child: the evil child, the vulnerable/innocent child, the political
child, the believing child, the enlightened child, and the freakish
child. It traces these versions across a wide range of genres
(fiction, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational
treatises, histories, catechisms and children's bibles), showing
how concepts of childhood related to debates about Irish
nationality, politics and history across these two centuries.
Examines a broad range of texts, including well-known canonical
texts, such as Gulliver's Travels, neglected fiction, such as
Stephen Cullen's The Haunted Priory, and little studied genres,
such as catechisms and children's bibles
Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire
story Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer whose
extensive body of work included historical, sensation and horror
novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural,
journalism and a verse-drama. While his name is well known to
aficionados of the horror genre, much of his work still remains in
the shadows. Indeed, despite his vampire creation, Carmilla, being
the best-known female blood-sucker in the world, and despite an
enormous scholarly and popular interest in the novella in which
this character first appeared (an interest evident in the very
large number of cinematic, televisual and even new media
adaptations of the story), Le Fanu himself is almost completely
unknown outside of the world of Irish Gothic scholarship, and most
of his fiction remains difficult to obtain or is out of print. To
celebrate the bicentenary of Le Fanu's birth, this collection
brings together established scholars and emerging researchers in
order to shed new light on some of his less famous fiction and
celebrate his influential contribution to the Gothic genre. The
main aim of the collection is to read Le Fanu in the round,
expanding the critical focus away from its current obsession with a
small proportion of his work and taking account of the full extent
of his writing, from his other Gothic novels, The Rose and the Key,
Haunted Lives and A Lost Name, to his short stories and journalism.
The collection also considers Le Fanu's relationship to Victorian
Ireland and especially Dublin from a number of different angles, as
well as addressing his status as an 'Irish' writer of substance.
"I never can resist a touch of the dramatic." The Memoirs of
Sherlock Holmes is now best remembered for its concluding story in
which the great detective appears to plunge to his death into the
waters at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls, locked in a struggle
with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. However, the collection also
brings the reader back to the beginnings of Holmes' career,
involving a mutiny at sea and a treasure hunt in a Sussex country
house, and a first encounter with Holmes' older brother Mycroft, of
whom Holmes says, "If the art of the detective began and ended in
reasoning from any armchair, my brother would be the greatest
criminal agent that ever lived". This collection includes some of
the detective's greatest cases, such as 'Silver Blaze' and 'The
Naval Treaty', and even one case which Holmes fails to solve.
Edited with an introduction by Jarlath Killeen, this volume
examines Holmes as a safeguard against social breakdown and chaos,
as well as an agent of justice and goodness against the forces of
evil. It also situates the collection in the growth of life writing
in the period, and explores the ways in which Holmes became
increasingly 'real' to readers as more details about his
personality and biography are revealed in the stories. ABOUT THE
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further study, and much more.
Oscar Wilde's two collections of children's literature, The Happy
Prince and Other Stories (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891),
have often been marginalised in critical accounts as their
apparently conservative didacticism appears at odds with the
characterisation of Wilde as an amoral aesthete. In this, the first
full-length study of Wilde's fairy tales for children, Jarlath
Killeen argues that Wilde's stories are neither uniformly
conservative nor subversive, but a blend of both. Killeen contends
that while they should be read in relation to a literary tradition
of fairy tales that emerged in nineteenth century Europe; Irish
issues heavily influenced the work. These issues were powerfully
shaped by the 'folk Catholicism' Wilde encountered in the west of
Ireland. By resituating the fairy tales in a complex nexus of
theological, political, social, and national concerns, Killeen
restores the tales to their proper place in the Wilde canon.
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