Introduction: The House of Vision: From Darkness to the Rising Sun
Part I: Plato’s Cave: Jumping at Shadows in the Family Home
Chapter 1 – The Medusa’s Mirror, Motherhood and a Woman’s Place in The Barracks
Chapter 2 – Rejecting Convention and ‘The Ireland that we Dreamed of’ in The Dark
Chapter 3 – Rising from the Cave in Nightlines
Part II: The Heterotopia: New and Uncertain Beginnings
Chapter 4 – The Road Away Becomes the Road Back: Brutal Experiments in The Leavetaking and The Pornographer
Chapter 5 – Standing Outside Life: Emergence and Transformation in Getting Through and High Ground
Part III: The Halfway House: Emergent Forms of Home
Chapter 6 – In the Halfway House: Custom, Ritual and the Social World of Manners in Amongst Women
Chapter 7 – A Life of One’s Own: Displacement and Transgression in the Late Stories
Part IV: The Fifth Province: Responsibilities in the Deep Hearth’s Core
Chapter 8 – Responsibilities in the Hearth of the House of Light: That They May Face the Rising Sun
Chapter 9 – Reimagining Darkness: Continuity and Contrast in The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Works
Conclusion: The Poetics of Dreaming and Time Regained in Memoir
Biography
John Singleton was awarded his PhD in English from the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2020. He has taught across various disciplines in the School of English and Creative Arts and the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI, Galway, since 2016. His main research interests are Modern Literature and Drama in English, Creative Writing, Irish Studies and Spatiality. His research has been published in the Review of Irish Studies in Europe, NPPSH Reflections and The Graveyard in Literature: Liminality and Social Critique.
