Deirdre Madden

Anne Fogarty is Professor of James Joyce Studies at University College DublinMarisol Morales-Ladrón is Professor of English and Irish literature at the University of Alcalá

This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland.

Foreword by a leading contemporary Irish writerIntroduction1. Stefanie Lehner (Queen's University Belfast): Trauma, Time and Memory in the Novels of Deirdre Madden2. Elizabeth A. Chase (Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts: "The Horror of Little Details": Ethics and Commemoration3. Catriona Clutterbuck (University College Dublin): The Ideal and the Real in the Early Novels of Deirdre Madden4. Zuzanna Sanches (University of Lisbon): Deirdre Madden's Remembering Light and Stone and Hidden Symptoms: Being in the World5. Jerry White (Dalhousie University): "Tentatively coming towards the continent": Nothing is Black and the Vagaries of Europeanism6. Brian Cliff (Trinity College Dublin): Class and Multiplicity in One by One in the Darkness7. Sylvie Mikowski (University of Reims): Deirdre Madden's Art of Detail and the Search for Authenticity8. Elke D'hoker (Catholic University of Leuven): Imaginaries of Home in Deirdre Madden's fiction9. Heather Ingman (Trinity College Dublin): Ageing and Authenticity in the Novels of Deirdre Madden10. Hedwig Schwall (Catholic University of Leuven): "Sensing your way back into childhood": The Function of Phantasms in Authenticity11. Derek Hand (Dublin City University): Living Lives of Quiet Desperation: Deirdre Madden's Authenticity and Molly Fox's Birthday in the Context of the Celtic Tiger Irish Novel12. Teresa Casal (University of Lisbon): "Let us think... Let me show her to you": The Role of Fiction in Deirdre Madden's Novels of Ideas13. Julie Anne Stevens (Dublin City University): Looking at Material Reality: Deirdre Madden's Books for ChildrenAfterword: Interview with Deirdre Madden by Marisol Morales (University of Alcalá)Index