Lloyd Houston (Meadhbh) (SSHRC-CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health

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Produktbeschreibung

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate within Irish literary culture from 1880 to 1960.

Produktdetails

• Oxford English Monographs
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 145mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780192889492
• ISBN-10: 0192889494
• Artikelnr.: 66694389

Autorenporträt

Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston is SSHRC-CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Alberta and Associate Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Their research explores the cultural politics of sexual health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and has been featured in publications including the Review of English Studies, the Journal of Medical Humanities, and the Irish Times.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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