Gothic and Noir: the Genres of the Irish Contemporary Fiction of “Containment”

This article argues that the trauma of sexual abuse, particularly child abuse, was represented as early as 1965 in John McGahern’s The Dark, but was only recognized as a major theme in Irish fiction with the publication of Anne Enright’s The Gathering in 2007. Both works, together with Eimear McBrid...

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