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Shadow voices : 300 years of Irish genre fiction : a history in stories / edited by John Connolly. - x, 1078 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1052-1062) and index.

The story of genre fiction - horror, romantic fiction, science fiction, crime writing, and more - is also the story of Irish fiction. Irish writers have given the world Lemuel Gulliver, Dracula, and the world of Narnia. They have produced pioneering tales of detection, terrifying ghost stories and ground-breaking women's popular fiction. Now, for the first time, John Connolly's one volume presents the history of Irish genre writing and uses it to explore how we think about fiction itself.



Deeply researched, and passionately argued, SHADOW VOICES takes the lives of more than sixty writers - by turns tragic, amusing, and adventurous, but always extraordinary - and sets them alongside the stories they have written, to create a new way of looking at genre and literatur...

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ISBN: 9781529394665 152939466X

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC1E9154 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020321722 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English fiction--Irish authors.
Irish fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Fictional Work
Short stories
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PR8797 / .S53 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 823.087