{"product_id":"the-corpse-in-modern-irish-christopher-cusack-9781836244837","title":"The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the bodies rotting by the wayside in Famine fiction, Synge's sodden corpses and Joyce's dead, to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's talking corpses and the unburied and dissected remains of Celtic Tiger fiction, the figure of the corpse is ubiquitous in Irish writing. This collection examines the Irish corpse as a conceptually rich centre-point with multiple differently signifying implications across this historical period as expressed in different social, political and creative contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking Irish literature's obsession with death as its starting point, \u003cem\u003eThe Corpse in Modern Irish Literature\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates the wide-ranging implications of this fixation, extending it through the contexts of the tragedies of the Irish past and the emergence of new identities in the wake of colonial modernity. In their range of authors and genres from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, the chapters bring into focus patterns of change and continuity and extend current understanding of the Gothic mode, the national tale, the Irish modernist novel, Irish-language poetry, the elegiac mode, comic and tragic revivalist writings and the generic complexity of autofiction and contemporary fiction. In so doing, \u003cem\u003eThe Corpse in Modern Irish Literature\u003c\/em\u003e makes a significant intervention in Irish studies, Gothic studies, death studies and medical and health humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Cusack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1836244835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836244837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d","brand":"Christopher Cusack","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086295085311,"sku":"9781836244837","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a756cb42-85a9-48cc-a490-0b397570de48.jpg?v=1769093889","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-corpse-in-modern-irish-christopher-cusack-9781836244837","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}