This collection of original research essays celebrates in a scholarly focused fashion the 250th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s birthday. “The Great Enchantress” of the Gothic romance, as her contemporaries re-christened her, was then and has been ever since the publication of her fiction, an author endowed with exceptional powers of enchantment over words, sounds and images.

This book is a meditation on isolation and community through the study of literary treatments of the theme. The treatments are fanciful rather than literal or clinical accounts of exile from society, myths, fables, tales of men without women on desert islands. Even Thoreau’s Walden is something of a lark, a willful eccentric experiment. Most of the stories take place on islands, but sometimes the open sea, mountains or the forest make do as an ‘I-land’.

The central theme of this monograph is James Joyce's employment of the Irish language in 'Finnegans Wake', the virtuosity with which he makes use of the tongue, the understanding of its grammatical and syntactical subtleties which he reveals in the book and "the explanatory treasure of heart and mind" , as the the author put it himself, which the Gaelic component of the writer's final word on the world provides.

PRAISE FOR JOHN MOOD'S RESEARCH ON READING ULYSSES:

Professor Leslie Fiedler (SUNY BUFFALO): “ It would be "more useful [for beginning readers] than anything else I have seen."

Irish novelist & memoirist Nuala O'Faolain: “...A charming and funny account of Ulysses" and " authoritative as well."

Best selling essayist & novelist Tom Wolfe: "I certainly enjoyed your Joycean excursion, particularly the part about Joyce's interweaving of various narrative voices."

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“Brilliant,at times dazzling...Liddelow impresses with her intellectual audacity, sheer erudition and courage in tackling this difficult and uncomfortable terrain”

Dr Jennifer Rutherford,Australian Book Review

“Engaging and innovative analysis” Dr Tessa Hockly, Australian Literary Studies
“Using Nietzsche and Orwell as key textural elements Dr Liddelow discusses the modern novel, the role of art, Media, literature in America, England, France and Australia as well as the literary praxis of decline and nihilistic despair. Her work has amazing sweep and intellectual energy.”

“ This major monograph enables us for the first time to enter deeply into Bengali archives of Tagore to discuss the Yeats and Tagore relationship with the crucial link of James Henry Cousins, an Irish Theosophist who lived in India after acting at the Abbey Theatre fully illuminated and explained: Cousins was related by belief and controversy to Yeats and by marriage and religion to Tagore. This work should be in research libraries . It has scholarly importance not only for Yeats Studies but for Tagore and Theosophy in India as well as Ireland .

Foreword by Mr Graeme Garvey, Chair, Yorkshire Dialect Society

This research monograph based on an extensive and original investigation of American literary sources and literary history and it discusses the extraordinary change that occurred in American literature and life based due to the shifting definition and framework of the concept of success from Franklin's ethically framed view of the citizen as a progressive member of an evolving exciting late colonial-early republican society through the redefinition of success and wealth into merciless individualism , mon

This book usurps the tradition of travel writing as practiced with respect to Ireland in recent decades. While the vast majority of Irish travelogues continue to be written in English, this travelogue was originally written in Irish and is here made available to the Anglophone world for the first time. This book links with a long tradition of travel writing as published in the Irish language. My Mule Drinks from the Ganges is a fascinating travelogue that reclaims one of the oldest traditions in Irish culture – the tradition of the “immrama” - for a new generation of readers.