Bibliography of Studies on the Irish Novel and Shorter Fiction (1997)


Source: This list has chiefly been extracted from Annual Selection [as supra] and does not include works with the names of authors in the title.

  • Jacqueline Belanger, ed., The Irish Novel in the Nineteenth Century; Facts and Fictions (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 247pp. [14 papers from conference of 2001, incl. Joe Cleary, et al.]
  • Stephen Brown, A Guide to Books on Ireland (Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1912; rep. Shannon: IUP 1969).
  • Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction, a guide to Irish novels, tales, romances, and folklore, Vol. 1 (Dublin: Maunsel 1919; rep. 1968) [based on prev. A Readers’ Guide to Irish Fiction 1910].
  • James Cahalan, Great Hatred, Little Room: The Irish Historical Novel (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1983).
  • James M. Cahalan, Double Visions: Women and Men in Modern and Contemporary Irish Fiction (NY: Syracuse UP 1999), xiii, 218pp.
  • James Cahalan, The Irish Novel: A Critical History (Boston 1988; Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1988).
  • Liam Carson, ‘Short Stories and Tall Tales: Oral Narratives and Their Place in the World’, in Irish Review, 36, 1 (Winter 2007), pp.134-39.
  • John Cronin, The Anglo-Irish Novel, Vol. 1: The Nineteenth Century (Belfast: Appletree Press 1980).
  • John Cronin, The Anglo-Irish Novel, Vol. 2: 1900-1940 (Belfast: Appletree Press 1990).
  • Charles Fanning, The Irish Voice in American Fiction (Kentucky UP 1991).
  • John Wilson Foster, Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan; Totowa NJ: Towman & Littlefield 1974).
  • John Wilson Foster, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (Cambridge UP 2006), xix, 286pp.
  • John Wilson Foster, Irish Novels 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction (OUP 2008), 519pp.
  • Peter Garside & Rainer Schöwerling [assisted by Christopher Skelton-Foord & Karin Wünsche], eds., The English novel, 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles, Vol. 2: 1800-1829 [gen. eds., Peter Garside, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling] (Oxford: OUP 200), xiv, 753p., ill.
  • Liam Harte, Tom Herron & Michael Parker, eds., Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories (London: Macmillan 2000), ix, 260pp.
  • Heather Ingmar, A History of the Irish Short Story (Cambridge UP 2009), 326pp.
  • Jennifer Jeffers, The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power (London: Palgrave 2002), 207pp.
  • Benedict Kiely, Modern Irish Fiction: A Critique (Dublin: Golden Eagle Books, 1950).
  • Vera Kreilkamp, Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House (Syracuse UP 1998), 192pp.
  • Rolf Loeber & Magda Loeber, with Anne Mullin Burnham, A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), cxv, 1,489pp., ill.
  • McCormack, W. J., Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1980).
  • James M. Murphy, Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland, 1873-1922 (Conn: Greenwood Press 1997), 176pp.Linden Peach, The Contemporary Irish Novel: Critical Readings (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan 2003, 2004), 304pp.
  • Neil Murphy, Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt: An Analysis of the Epistemological Crisis in Modern Irish Fiction (Edwin Mellen Press 2004), 286pp. [on Aidan Higgins, John Banville and Neil Jordan].
  • Patrick Rafroidi, & Terence Brown, eds., The Irish Short Story (Gerrards Cross [q.d.]) [on Carleton, Le Fanu, J. B. Keane, Bryan MacMahon, James Joyce, Daniel Corkery, Liam O’Flaherty, Frank O’Connor, Sean O’Faolain, Patrick Boyle, Michael MacLaverty, Somerville and Ross, Geo. Moore, Seamus O’Kelly, Beckett, Joyce and John MacGahern].
  • Danial Schwartz, Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930 (Oxford: Blackwell 2004), 297pp. [incls. Joyce].
  • Brian Shaffer, ed., A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell 2005), 583pp.
  • Sloan, Barry, The Pioneers of Anglo-Irish Fiction 1800-1850 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe; Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1984).
  • Smyth, Gerry, The Novel and the New Nation: Studies in New Irish Fiction (London: Pluto 1997), 208pp.
  • Michael L. Storey, Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction (Washington: CUA Press 2004), 256pp. [discusses Corkery, O’Connor, O’Faolain, O’Flaherty, MacLaverty, Colum McCann, Anne Devlin, et al.]
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