Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what constitutes this body of literature remains far from settled. This collection of essays explores the rich complexities of the literary gothic in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: De-limiting the Irish Gothic; Christina Morin and Niall Gillespie 1. Theorizing 'Gothic' in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; Christina Morin 2. The Irish Protestant Gothic Imaginary: The Cultural Contexts for the Gothic Chapbooks, published by Bennett Dugdale, 1800-1805; Diane Long Hoeveler 3. Irish Jacobin Gothic, c. 1796-1825; Niall Gillespie 4. Suffering Rebellion: Irish Gothic Fiction, 1799-1830; Jim Shanahan 5. The Gothicization of Irish Folklore; Anne Markey 6. Maturin's Catholic Heirs: Expanding the Limits of Irish Gothic; Richard Haslam 7. J.S. Le Fanu, Gothic, and the Irish Periodical; Elizabeth Tilley 8. 'Whom We Name Not': The House by the Churchyard and its Annotation; W.J. Mc Cormack 9. Muscling Up: Bram Stoker and Irish Masculinity in The Snake's Pass; Jarlath Killeen 10. 'The Old Far West and the New': Bram Stoker, Race, and Manifest Destiny; Luke Gibbons Index