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The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Contents

The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature

Contents

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Enigmatic History of Imperiled Innocence

1. “An Iridescence Difficult to Account For”: Sexual Initiation in Joyce’s Fiction of Development

2. Between (Open) Secret and Enigma: Kate O’Brien, The Land of Spices, and the Stylistic Invention of Lesbian (In)visibility

3. Country Girl: Groomed, Seduced, and Abandoned

4. “From the Pits and Ditches Where People Have Fallen”: Sex Scandal and the Reinvention of the Irish Public Sphere in Keith Ridgway’s The Long Falling

5. Retrofitting Ireland’s Architecture of Containment in Tana French’s In the Woods

6. “Roaring Inside Me”: The Enigma of Sexual Violence in The Gathering

Epilogue: What about Brendan?

Notes on the Illustrations

List of Illustrations

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