Jane Austen, Henry James and the Death of the Mother
Part One
IRELAND
W. B. Yeats: New Ways to Kill Your Father
Willie and George
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Synge and His Family
Beckett Meets His Afflicted Mother
Brian Moore: Out of Ireland Have I Come, Great Hatred, Little Room
Sebastian Barry’s Fatherland
Roddy Doyle and Hugo Hamilton: The Dialect of the Tribe
Part Two
ELSEWHERE
Thomas Mann: New Ways to Spoil Your Children
Borges: A Father in His Shadow
Hart Crane: Escape from Home
Tennessee Williams and the Ghost of Rose
John Cheever: New Ways to Make Your Family’s Life a Misery
Baldwin and ‘the American Confusion’
Baldwin and Obama: Men Without Fathers
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
By the same author
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