Harte's collection succeeds admirably. Gothic, romanticism, the historical novel, magic naturalism, social realism, modernism, hard-boiled noir, children's lit, film, political thrillers, police procedurals, the domestic novel, fiction in Irish, the Bildungsroman, post-modern experimentation - it's all here. If you teach modern literature, you will love this book. If you teach Irish literature, you will need it.
Liam Harte is Professor of Irish Literature at the University of Manchester. His publications include A History of Irish Autobiography (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007 (Wiley Blackwell, 2014), The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), and Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories (Macmillan, 2000; co-edited with Michael Parker).