The Poor Bugger's Tool--the title taking its name from the veiled reference to Roger Casement in Joyce's Ulysses--draws on writings by Wilde, Synge, Joyce, Jamie O'Neill, and Patrick McCabe to consider how each deploys queer aesthetics to shape...
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The Poor Bugger's Tool--the title taking its name from the veiled reference to Roger Casement in Joyce's Ulysses--draws on writings by Wilde, Synge, Joyce, Jamie O'Neill, and Patrick McCabe to consider how each deploys queer aesthetics to shape inclusive forms of national affiliation and put forward anti-imperialist critiques. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Oscar Wilde and the Greatest Mystery of Modern Literature: Aesthetics, Affect, and Value -- 2. J. M. Synge and the Aesthetics of Intelligent Sympathy -- 3. Roger Casement's Global English: From Human Rights to the Homoerotic -- 4. Ruling Passion: James Joyce, Roger Casement, and the Drama of Universal Love -- 5. The Queer Labors of Patrick McCabe and Neil Jordan: Novel, Television, Cinema -- 6. "Sinn Feiners, me arse. I'm a socialist, never doubt about it": Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys and the Queer Project of Socialism -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
