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Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800-2000

Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800-2000

This book looks at Irish Gothic and horror texts, in both English and Irish, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Each selected work is considered in its historical context, to illustrate the historiographical role of horror and monstrosity in Irish fiction.

Jack Fennell

  • Liverpool University Press
  • 9781802076936
  • 296 pages
  • Paperback / softback
  • United Kingdom
  • Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers