What if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be transla

What if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be transla

What if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be transla

Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.

Taking its cue from Baudelaire’s important essay "The Painter of Modern Life," in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a "man of the world," this co