TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connolly,John
TI  - Shadow voices: 300 years of Irish genre fiction : a history in stories 
SN  - 9781529394665
AV  - PR8797 .S53 2021
U1  - 823.087 23
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Irish authors
KW  - Irish fiction
KW  - Fictional Work
KW  - Short stories
KW  - aat
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 1052-1062) and index
N2  - 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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