A history of the Irish novel

Introduction: a history of the Irish novel: 1665-2010

Interchapter: Virtue Rewarded, or The Irish Princess: burgeoning silence and the new novel form in Ireland

1. Beginnings and endings: writing from the margins, 1665-1800

Interchapter: beyond history: Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent

2. Speak not my name or, the wings of Minerva: Irish fiction, 1800-1891

Interchapter: Edith Somerville and Martin Ross's The Real Charlotte: the blooming menagerie

3. Living in a time of epic: the Irish novel and literary revival and revolution, 1891-1922

Interchapter: James Joyce's Ulysses: choosing life

4. Irish independence and the bureaucratic imagination: 1922-1939

Interchapter: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and the art of betrayal

5. Enervated island: isolated Ireland? 1940-1960

Interchapter: John Banville's Doctor Copernicus: a revolution in the head

6. The struggle of making it new, 1960-1979

Interchapter: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark and the rebel act of interpretation

7. Brave new worlds: Celtic tigers and moving statues: 1979 to the present day

Interchapter: John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun: saying the very last things

Conclusion: the future of the Irish novel in the global literary marketplace

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