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Article: Gothic Ireland: Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
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- Christianity and Literature
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- March 22, 2009
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Gothic Ireland: Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century. By Jarlath Kelleen. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. ISBN: 9-781851-829439. Pp. vii + 240. $65.
The flowering of nineteenth-century Gothic literature in English is conspicuously marked by seminal works penned by members of the Protestant Ascendancy. One thinks, early in the century, of Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer and Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk, midcentury of Sheridan LeFanu's tales, and at the fin de siecle of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and the grand denouement of the period's Gothic expression, Bram Stoker's Dracula. Thus, it seems likely, ...