Terror and Irish Modernism: The Gothic Tradition from Burke to Beckett

He focuses in particular on how the Irish Gothic tradition translated the English Gothic’s female-confinement narrative into a story about confined, feminized male protagonists. In reading this male gender-disorientation as the foundational condition of modern Irish political identity, Terror and Irish Modernism provides a thoroughly new genealogy of modern Irish fiction.
“…a complex reading of how Ireland’s political history has informed the tradition of Irish gothic fiction and how that tradition then informed Irish modernist texts … Using Hegelian dialectics, postcolonial hybridity, and abject maternal identity, Hansen chronicles how characters, and sometimes authors, attempt to escape confinement and gain autonomy.”