Books by Joseph Valente

The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature refines the debates on why so many Irish children were lost by offering insight into the lived experience of both the children and those who failed them.

Unearths the Irish roots of Bram Stoker's gothic masterpiece, offering an interpretation of the author's relationship to his novel and to the politics of blood that consumes its characters. This title presents Stoker's novel as a subtly ironic commentary on England's preoccupation with racial purity.

A sophisticated analysis of the complicated state of Irish masculinity