Jarlath Killeen
Biographic Data
| ID | 8960284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jarlath Killeen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jarlath |
| FAMILY NAME | Killeen |
| SIGNATURE | KILLEEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victorian Literature, Trinity College Dublin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914–1934: The Ghosts of World War One
Return of the Brute (1929), the Irish writer Liam O’Flaherty’s short, bruising, fictional account of life on the Western Front, concludes with Gunn, a portentously named traumatised infantryman, br
Ireland
There are many Oscar Wildes—a ‘complex multiform creature’ indeed, as his biographers never tire of informing us—though popular culture tends to be interested in only a handful. For years, Wilde was treated as an ‘English’ writer; that he was born and reared in Ireland was considered relatively unimportant. Nowadays, of course, his Irishness is much better known and ‘Wilde the Irishman’ has been welcomed on to the public and scholarly stage. Howe…
The greening of Oscar Wilde: Situating Ireland in the Wilde wars
The importance of Ireland to an understanding of Oscar Wilde has been the subject of contentious discussion in recent years. For one group of critics Wilde has been considered “a militant Irish republican”, an Irish “terrorist by another name”, whose literary practices resembled those of “guerrilla warfare”, an ardent Home Ruler and Parnellite, and committed Irish nationalist whose work is suffused with references to Ireland and the Irish Questio…
The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction
Mad Love: The Adventures
The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction: History, Origins, Theories
Killeen's book provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century. This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the ‘beginnings’ of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland. The main argument the book makes is that the Irish gothic should be read in the context of the …
Mother and Child: Realism, Maternity, and Catholicism in Kate Chopin's the Awakening
The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction
Mad Love: The Adventures
The greening of Oscar Wilde: Situating Ireland in the Wilde wars
The importance of Ireland to an understanding of Oscar Wilde has been the subject of contentious discussion in recent years. For one group of critics Wilde has been considered “a militant Irish republican”, an Irish “terrorist by another name”, whose literary practices resembled those of “guerrilla warfare”, an ardent Home Ruler and Parnellite, and committed Irish nationalist whose work is suffused with references to Ireland and the Irish Questio…
Mother and Child: Realism, Maternity, and Catholicism in Kate Chopin's the Awakening
The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction: History, Origins, Theories
Killeen's book provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century. This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the ‘beginnings’ of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland. The main argument the book makes is that the Irish gothic should be read in the context of the …
The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction
Mad Love: The Adventures
The greening of Oscar Wilde: Situating Ireland in the Wilde wars
The importance of Ireland to an understanding of Oscar Wilde has been the subject of contentious discussion in recent years. For one group of critics Wilde has been considered “a militant Irish republican”, an Irish “terrorist by another name”, whose literary practices resembled those of “guerrilla warfare”, an ardent Home Ruler and Parnellite, and committed Irish nationalist whose work is suffused with references to Ireland and the Irish Questio…
Ireland
There are many Oscar Wildes—a ‘complex multiform creature’ indeed, as his biographers never tire of informing us—though popular culture tends to be interested in only a handful. For years, Wilde was treated as an ‘English’ writer; that he was born and reared in Ireland was considered relatively unimportant. Nowadays, of course, his Irishness is much better known and ‘Wilde the Irishman’ has been welcomed on to the public and scholarly stage. Howe…
Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914–1934: The Ghosts of World War One
Return of the Brute (1929), the Irish writer Liam O’Flaherty’s short, bruising, fictional account of life on the Western Front, concludes with Gunn, a portentously named traumatised infantryman, br
Art (4 works) · Irish (4 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (2 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gothic fiction (literary genre) (2 works)