Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the Primitive Sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Ireland's artistic production and the wider global cultural production of Postcolonial literature.

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).

Chapter One: Introduction

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 O'Neill, McCann, and Tóibín