Chapter One: Introduction: Modern Ireland and the Primitive Sublime
Chapter Two: Performing the Primitive Sublime: The Celtic Revival and Irish Indigeneity
Chapter Three: James Joyce and the Primitive Sublime: From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Chapter Four: Mid-century Malaise and Desublimation in Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien, Kate O’Brien, and Edna O’Brien
Chapter Five: The Living Dead: The Late Century Resurgence of the Primitive Sublime in Works by Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Brian Friel
Chapter Six: Primitive Sublime Terror: Writing New York after 9/11 in Joseph O’Neill, Colum McCann, and Colm Tóibín
Biography
Maria McGarrity is a professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York. She has been published in journals including the James Joyce Quarterly, Ariel: a Review of International English Literature, CLA Journal, and The Journal of West Indian Literature. She has published two monographs, Washed by the Gulf Stream: the Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature (Delaware, 2008) and Allusions in Omeros: Notes and a Guide for Derek Walcott’s Masterpiece (Florida, 2015) and two co-edited collections, Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive (Palgrave, 2009) and Caribbean Irish Connections (University of the West Indies Press, 2015).
