The Uncanny as a Method in Contemporary Irish Literature (Routledge Studies in Irish Literature)

This volume examines how post-Celtic Tiger Irish literature responds to overlapping economic and environmental crises through an innovative blending of realism, speculative, and gothic modes.Focusing on seven texts published between 2004 and 2022, it introduces Uncanny Realism: a critical framework that explores how fractured, hybrid narratives destabilize familiar worldviews, drawing out latent histories and spectral signs of systemic crisis.These works blur boundaries between the real and the unreal, the living and the dead, the present and the past, the here and there, capturing a pervasive sense of dislocation and recurrence.Grouped by spatial context (rural, domestic, and urban) the selected texts trace how literature registers extractivism, precarity, and the erosion of social and material certainties across distinct Irish geographies.By emphasizing Ireland’s semi-peripheral position within the global capitalist system, the book reveals how these fictions not only narrate local t