Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Queering the Revivalist’s Pitch: Joycean Engagements with Primitivism....Pages 17-39
Robots and Rebels: Technological and Organic Discourse in Pearse’s Political Essays....Pages 41-61
“Magnificent Words and Gestures”: Defining the Primitive in Synge’s The Aran Islands....Pages 63-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
The Ethnographic Roots of Joyce’s Modernism: Exhibiting Ireland’s Primitives in the National Museum and the “Nestor” Episode....Pages 79-92
Visible Others: Photography and Romantic Ethnography in Ireland....Pages 93-114
“The Loveliness Which Has Not Yet Come Into the World”: Translation as a Revisitation of Joyce’s (Irish) Modernism....Pages 115-132
Primitive Emancipation: Religion, Sexuality, and Freedom in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses....Pages 133-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
“Reluctant Indians”: Irish Identity and Racial Masquerade....Pages 153-171
Female Militancy and Irish Primitivism: Dorothy Macardle’s Earth-Bound....Pages 173-194
Domestic Gothic, the Global Primitive, and Gender Relations in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September and The House in Paris....Pages 195-214
The Gaelic Athletic Association, Joyce, and the Primitive Body....Pages 215-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-244