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Tables of Contents for Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Part I Introduction
1
18
Mother-Ireland Calls Me
3
16
Part II Social Spaces
19
70
Home and Hearth: the Mother's Social Boundaries
21
5
`A slut among nations': the Mother's Procurement of the Child in the Works of George Moore
26
20
Eve's Curse No More: Yeats's Displacement of the Mother, 1889-1914
46
20
Mothers and Martyrs
61
5
Denying the Mother: Escaping Confirmation in Family and Father in the Work of James Joyce, 1907-14
66
23
Part III On the Edge of Disorder
89
48
Origin, Space, Opposition: Constructing, Containing and Privileging the Maternal
91
5
Disclosing Ritual and Challenging the Symbolic: Synge's Marginal Mothers
96
22
Rebellion and Revolution: Couvade and (Self-)Creation
111
7
'What's ni Houlihan to You?': Sean O'Casey's Construction of the Mother
118
19
Part IV Symbolic Spaces
137
44
Modernism and the Maternal: Appropriation of the Mother's Space and the Breakdown of the Symbolic
139
6
Playing Her Part Too Well: the Mother and Her Construct in Yeats, 1917-39
145
18
`Let me be and let me live': Wresting Subjectivity from the Mother in Joyce's Ulysses
163
18
Part V Conclusion
181
14
`sad and weary I go back to you, my cold father'
183
12
Notes
195
41
Bibliography
236
9
Index
245