What we want is capital : a political, etymological, Dantean, and Gnostic reading of James Joyce's "Ivy day in the committee room" / Michael Brian -- Female sexuality in The midnight court and Ulysses / Martin J. Croghan -- International eyesore : Joyce the pornographer / S.J. Boyd -- Joyce at Tara / Bruce Stewart -- Towards a "comedie humaine of Ireland" : the politics of James Stephens's early novels / Werner Huber -- Custom, ceremony and innocence : Elizabeth Bowen's The last September / C.L. Inness -- Death of the house : Molly Keane and the Anglo-Irish gothic novel / Clair Hughes --Eimar O'Duffy's Cuanduine satires / José Lanters -- The political Bildungsroman / Kristin Morrison -- Politicization of women in the writings of Julia O'Faolain : That is no country for young men and The Irish signorina / Christina Hunt Mahony -- An acceptable level of violence: women, fiction, and Northern Ireland / Margaret Scanlan