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1. Introduction / Paul Fagan (University of Vienna, Austria) John Greaney (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Tamara Radak (University of Vienna, Austria) -- Part I. Testing the limits of Irish modernism ; 2. Explaining ourselves: Hannah Berman, Jewish nationalism & Irish modernism / John Brannigan (University College Dublin, Ireland) ; 3. Irish modernism: a queer history / Seán Hewitt (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) ; 4. A forgotten Irish modernist: Ethel Colburn Mayne / Elke D'Hoker (KU Leuven, Belgium) ; 5. Melancholy modernism: the loss of the Irish woman poet 1930-1950 / Lucy Collins (University College Dublin, Ireland) ; 6. The machine in the (Holy) Ghost: anti-science literature, genre fiction, and Irish modernism / Jack Fennell (University of Limerick, Ireland) ; 7. Semantic succour: the languages of Irish modernism / Eoin Byrne (NUI Galway, Ireland) -- Part II. Irish modernist body politics. 8. Rhetorics of health: synge, Yeats & the philosophy of Irish Ireland / Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston (University of Oxford, UK) ; 9. Rhetorics of sacrifice: sex, gender & the death penalty in the 1916 generation / Katherine Ebury (Sheffield University, UK) ; 10. 'the funeral of one's past': Thomas MacGreevy as Ireland's modernist war poet / Daniel Curran (Maynooth University, Ireland) ; 11. 'The ranks of respectability': prostitution, citizenship & the free state in the novels of Liam O'Flaherty / Laura Lovejoy (University College Cork, Ireland) ; 12. Irish skin: the epidermiology of modernism / Barry Sheils (Durham University, UK) ; 13. Death & the nonhuman in Elizabeth Bowen's fiction / Maureen O'Connor (University College Cork, Ireland) -- Part III. The media of Irish modernism. 14. Letters & weak theory in Irish modernism / Maebh Long (University of Waikato, New Zealand) ; 15. 'A pattern designer in sound': Irish modernist musical permutations / Michelle Witen (University of Basel, Switzerland) ; 16. Mechanical animals, Flying men & educated monkeys: technology & modernity in the comic strips of Jack B. Yeats / Michael Connerty (Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland) ; 17. The full little jug: Flann O'Brien & a new Irish public discourse / Catherine Flynn (UC, Berkeley, USA) ; 18. Joyce & Beckett: blind bards in the age of cinema / Cleo-Hanaway Oakley (Bristol University, UK). "Focusing on previously unexplored theoretical gaps, limitations, and fresh avenues of inquiry within the canon and scholarship of Irish modernism, this book interrogates marginalised and neglected figures and genres to develop a more attentive and fluid theoretical space in which to reflect upon the field. Probing Irish modernism's responsiveness to contemporary theory beyond postcolonial and Irish studies, this book uses diverse paradigms including weak theory, biopolitics, posthumanism, and the nonhuman turn, to rethink Irish modernism's organising themes: nationalism, martyrdom, war, state violence, prostitution, temporality, death, mourning. At the same time, cutting-edge work from queer theory and gender studies draws urgent attention to the too often marginalised importance of women's writing and queer expression to the Irish avant-garde . Foregrounding Irish modernist interfaces between visual, literary, musical, dramatic, cinematic, epistolary and journalistic media, this book focuses on writers, artists and cultural figures such as Hannah Berman, Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Forrest Reid, Mary Davenport O'Neill, Sheila Wingfield, Ethel Colburn Mayne, Edward Martyn, Jane Seosamh Ó Torna, and Mìrtín Ó Cadhain. At the same time, this volume asks how consideration of Irish modernism through the diverse genres and movements of these neglected and liminal figures compels us to reconsider the position of the "major (Irish) modernists" -- such as Synge, Yeats, Shaw, Joyce, O'Nolan, Beckett, MacGreevy, and Bowen -- in this redrawn canon."--
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