Sex, Dissent and Irish Fiction: Reading John McGahern



Shovlin, Frank ORCID: 0000-0002-6200-8548
(2020) Sex, Dissent and Irish Fiction: Reading John McGahern. In: Irish Literature in Transition, 1940-1980. Cambridge University Press,Cambridge, pp. 185-200. ISBN 9781108616348

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Abstract

Looking at John McGahern's early fiction, this essay seeks to problematize easy assumptions about representations of sexual life and sexual dissidence in Ireland between 1940 and 1980, years often misinterpreted as provincial and fallow for Irish writing.

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Date Deposited: 03 Oct 2019 09:26
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 00:24
DOI: 10.1017/9781108616348.012
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3056817