Redefines Irish modernism as resistance to religious, sociopolitical and aesthetic orthodoxies
Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the Catholic Church that was gathering momentum in the same period. In religion as in culture, resistance to orthodoxy has persisted, and for this reason this companion explores modernist heresies - cultural, aesthetic, critical, epistemological - that stretch back to the late nineteenth-century and forward to present day. Contributors widen the temporal, conceptual, generic, and geographical definitions of Irish modernism by investigating crosscurrents between literary form and cultural transformation through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book enriches the canon of Irish modernism by recovering lesser-known works by both neglected and canonical writers, especially women poets and novelists.
Maud Ellmann is the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago.
Siân White is Associate Professor of English at James Madison University.
Vicki Mahaffey is the Head of Department and Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Maud Ellmann is Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago. Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment, and Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism. She has also published widely on modern literature and literary theory, feminism, and deconstruction.

Sian White is Associate Professor of English at James Madison University. She is the author of a range of published journal articles including 'Spatial Politics/Poetics, Late Modernism and Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September', Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 49.1 (2016): 27-50; 'Ulysses, the Poetics of Tragedy, and A New Mimesis', PLL: Papers on Language and Literature 51.4 (2015): 334-72; and 'An Aesthetics of Unintimacy: Narrative Complexity in Elizabeth Bowen's Style', JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 45.1 (Winter 2015), 79-104.

Vicki Mahaffey is the Head of Department and Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor of Englishat the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her publications include Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions (Basil Blackwell, 2007); States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Experiment (Oxford University Press, 1998); and Reauthorizing Joyce (University Press of Florida, 1995).

Introduction: Out of Ireland, Maud Ellmann; I. Heresies of Time and Space; 1. Rising Timely and Untimely: On Joycean Anachronism, Paul Saint-Amour; 2. Temporal Powers: Second Sight, the Future, and Celtic Modernity, Luke Gibbons; 3. Waking from History: The Nation's Past and Future in Finnegans Wake, Jeremy Colangelo; 4. W.B. Yeats's The Dreaming of the Bones and the Limits of Global Modernism, Cóilín Parsons; 5. Borderation: Fictions of the Northern Irish Border, Maud Ellmann; 6. Hereseas: Water in English and Irish Modernism, Nels Pearson; II. Heresies of Nationalism 7. 'A Fairy Boy of Eleven, a Changeling, Kidnapped, Dressed in an Eton Suit': Precarious, Lost, and Recovered Children in Anglophone Irish Modernism, Margot Backus; 8. Legacies of Land and Soil: Irish Drama, European Integration, and the Unfinished Business of Modernism, Sarah Townsend; 9. Ireland's Philatelic Modernism, Julieann Veronica Ulin; 10. Modernism against/for the Nation: Joycean Echoes in Post-War Taiwan, Shan-Yun Huang; 11. Rage's Brother: The Bomb at the Center of Wilde's Trivial Comedy, Kathryn Conrad; III. Aesthetic Heresies; 12. Modern Irish Poetry and the Heresy of Modernism, Eric Falci; 13. Modernist Heresies: Irish Visual Culture and the Arts and Crafts movement, Kelly Sullivan; 14. The Insurgent Romance and Early Cinema in Ireland, Matt Brown; 15. 'Put "Molotoff bread-basket" into Irish, please': Cruiskeen Lawn, Dada and the Blitz, Catherine Flynn; 16. Irish Christian Comedy: Heresy or Reform?, Vicki Mahaffey; IV. Heresies of Gender and Sexuality; 17. The Irish Bachelor, Ed Madden; 18. 'Purity, Piety, and Simplicity': Heretical Images of the Female Catholic Reader in Irish Modernism, T.J. Boynton; 19. 'Stolen fruit is best of all': The Pleasures of Subversive Consumption in the Late Novels of Molly Keane, Lauren Rich; 20. 'Stories Are A Different Kind of True': Gender and Narrative Agency in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction, Siân White; 21. Challenging the Iconic Feminine in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Ailbhe Darcy; V. Critical Heresies; 22. 'a form that accommodates the mess': Degeneration and/as disability in Beckett's Happy Days, Seán Kennedy and Joseph Valente; 23. Jumping Cats and Living Handkerchiefs: The Queer and Comic Non-Human World of Elizabeth Bowen's Fiction, Maureen O'Connor; 24. Theorising Irish-Language Modernism: Voicing Precarity, Sarah McKibben; 25. Affective Alchemy: W. B. Yeats and the Heresy of Joy, Wendy Truran; 26. Watery modernism? Mike McCormack's Solar Bones and W. B. Yeats's John Sherman, Claire Connolly; Notes on Contributors; Index.