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    1. Kakihara, sadomasochistic killer, in Ichi the Killer, film, dir. Takashi Miike, 2001. Screenplay by Sakichi Satô.

    2. Connolly, ‘Writing the Union’, 180.

    3. Maria Edgeworth to Sarah Ruxton, 29 January 1800, quoted in Hare, Life and Letters, 72. See also Dougherty, ‘Mr and Mrs England’.

    4. James Kelly examines the discourse of the union in Irish political affairs over the long term in ‘Origins of the Act of Union’; idem, ‘Public and Political Opinion in Ireland’; David Hayton is much more sceptical about this tradition in ‘Ideas of Union’. See also Robbins, Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman, ch. 5; Hill, ‘Ireland without Union’.

    5. The literature of the Union has received a good deal of attention from critics. See Connolly, ‘Completing the Union?’; idem, ‘Writing the Union’; McCormack, Pamphlet Debate.

    6. Kelly, ‘The Act of Union’, 52–3.

    7. Anon, An humble address, passim, especially 24.

    8. Powell, Britain and Ireland, 29.

    9. Ibid., 26.

    10. See, Powell, ‘Managing the Dublin Populace’; idem, ‘Political Toasting’; Harris, Politics and the Nation, 214–21; McCracken, ‘Conflict between the Irish Administration and Parliament’; Hill, ‘“Allegories”’.

    11. Sheldon, Tomas Sheridan, 198; Mounsey, ‘Thomas Sheridan’, 65–77.

    12. Suspicion at the time was rife that Digges had refused to say the lines precisely in order to cause a riot by his Patriot friends in the audience, friends that he had invited because he was aware of the court politics of Thomas Sheridan, actor–manager of the Theatre-Royal.

    13. Megennis, Irish Political System, 106.

    14. Dickson, New Foundations, 100.

    15. Hill, ‘“Allegories”’, 70.

    16. [Sir Richard Cox], The True Life of Betty Ireland.

    17. Ibid., 7–19.

    18. Ibid., 8.

    19. Quoted in Malcomson, Pursuit of the Heiress, 62–3.

    20. Garnham, ‘Riot Acts’.

    21. Walpole, Memoirs of the Last Ten Years, Vol. 2, pp. 403–4.

    22. For a detailed look at the events, see Murphy, ‘Dublin Anti-Union Riot’.

    23. Freeman, Short but true history.

    24. Quoted in Powell, Britain and Ireland, 62.

    25. Murphy, ‘Dublin Anti-Union Riot’, 58–60.

    26. Quoted in Murphy, ‘Dublin Anti-Union Riot’, 61.

    27. Perry, Women, Letters, 93.

    28. Richter, ‘Ins and Outs of Intimacy’, 117.

    29. Favret, Romantic Correspondence, 36. The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and the Politics of Consent 143

    30. Kelly, ‘Regulating Print’, 164.

    31. Hunter, Before Novels; Guest, Small Change, 15.

    32. Cook, Epistolary Bodies, 17.

    33. Anonymous, The P**** Vindicated, 6.

    34. Favret, Romantic Correspondence, 9.

    35. Heckdendorn Cook, Epistolary Bodies, 174.

    36. Williams, Art of Darkness, 14, 8.

    37. Morin, ‘Forgotten Fiction’, 80–1.

    38. Anonymous, Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley. References to the text will be made in parenthesis in the body of the chapter.

    39. Levy, ‘“Gothic”’, 6.

    40. Ibid., 2.

    41. Haslam, ‘Irish Gothic’, Routledge Companion, 90.

    42. Molyneux, Case of Ireland, 116.

    43. King, State of the Anglicans of Ireland, 2.

    44. M. B. Drapier, Some Observations upon a Paper, call’d, the report of the committee of the most honourable the Privy-Council in England, Relating to WOOD’s Half-Pence (Dublin: John Harding, 1724), in Swift, Drapier’s Letters, 31.

    45. Swift, ‘A Short Character of Thomas, Earl of Wharton’, Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, IV, 179.

    46. Lucas, Political Constitutions, Address X, 128.

    47. Ibid., Address XI, 148.

    48. Idem, Divelina Libera: An Apology for the Civil Rights and Liberties of the Commons and Citizens of Dublin (Dublin: James Esdall, 1744), 5.

    49. [Brooke], Liberty and Common-Sense, 3–4.

    50. Simms, Colonial Nationalism.

    51. Loxley, Problematic Shores. I owe this reference to my doctoral student, Ian Kinane.

    52. Ibid., 3.

    53. Megennis, Irish Political System, 100.

    54. Ibid., 133, 139.

    55. Dickson, New Foundations, 93.

    56. Morin, ‘Forgotten Fiction’, 88.

    57. Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism, 142, 146.

    58. Patriot Queries, 9.

    59. [Henryy Brooke], Liberty and Common-Sense, 22.

    60. Powell, Britain and Ireland, 20.

    61. Megennis, Irish Political System, 67.

    62. [Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Duke of Dorset?], Common Sense, 13–14, 15.

    63. McLoughlin, Contesting Ireland, 70.

    64. Tanner, Adultery in the Novel, 3–4.

    65. Madden, Reflections and Resolutions, 109.

    66. Smyth, ‘“Like amphibious animals”’, 787. See also Barnard, ‘Crises of Identity’; Canny, ‘Identity Formation in Ireland’, 201–2.

    67. Anolik, ‘Missing Mother’, 25.

    68. Dever, Death and the Mother, xi, xii.

    69. Mulvey-Roberts, ‘Menstrual Misogyny and Taboo’, 159.

    70. Lindsey, ‘Horror, Femininity’, 284.

    71. Shildrick, Leaky Bodies. I owe this reference to Maria Parsons.

    72. Kristeva, Powers of Horror, 2.

    73. Williams, ‘When the Woman Looks’, 87, 88.

    74. Kristeva, Powers of Horror, 4.

    75. Creed, The Monstrous-Feminine, ‘Introduction’.

    76. Creed, Monstrous-Feminine, ‘Introduction’.

    77. Ibid., 107.

    78. Ibid., 157.

    79. Kahane, ‘Gothic Mirror’; Wolstenholme, Gothic (Re)Visions.

    80. Did the use of this name inspire Regina Maria Roche when she was writing Clermont (1798)?

    81. Craft-Fairchild, ‘Cross-Dressing and the Novel’.

    82. Jones, Jane Austen, 54.

    83. Miller, Heroine’s Text, xi.

    84. Hansen, ‘Wrong Marriage’, 356.

    85. See Corbett, Allegories of Union, 16.

    86. Deane, Strange Country, 20–30.

    87. Mellor, Romanticism and Gender, 80.

    88. Boone, Tradition Counter Tradition, 9, 7.


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