Theorizing Ireland Book

	General Editor's Preface
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction: Ireland in Theory	11
2	Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea	14
3	The Virtual Reality of Irish Fairy Legend	27
4	'Bog Queens': The Representation of Women in the Poetry of John Montague and Seamus Heaney	41
5	To Bind the Northern to the Southern Stars: Field Day in Derry and Dublin	61
6	Narratives of the Nation: Fact, Fiction and Irish Cinema	69
7	Changing the Question	76
8	Misplaced Ideas? Colonialism, Location and Dislocation in Irish Studies	91
9	Sex and Sensation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel	105
10	Tantalized by Progress	114
11	The Politics of Poetic Form	125
12	'In the Midst of All this Dross': Establishing the Grounds of Dissent	135
13	Subalternity and Gender: Problems of Postcolonial Irishness	150
14	The Spirit of the Nation	160
	Summaries and Notes	173
	Glossary	202
	Further Reading	205
	Notes on Contributors	210
	Index	212