Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health

Houston, Lloyd (Meadhbh)

Oxford University Press

02/2023

336

Dura

Inglês

9780192889492

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction: Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health
Part I: Scandalous Autonomy
1: 'Bred out of the contagion of the throng': Irish Modernism, Sexual Health, and the Parnell Myth
2: 'Survival of the unfittest': Synge, Yeats, and the Rhetoric of Health
Part II: Hygiene and its Discontents
3: 'Their syphilisation you mean': Irish Modernism and the Politics of Venereal Disease
Part III: Heredity and Fertility
4: 'Sterilization of the mind and apotheosis of the litter': Beckett, Censorship, and Fertility
5: 'But perhaps this new child will be perfect!': Kate O'Brien's Eugenic Romances
Part IV: Sexual Health and Exhaustion
6: 'Veni, V.D., Vici!': Flann O'Brien, Sexual Health, and the Exhaustion of Irish Modernism
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