Notes
1. Edna O'Brien, ‘Why Irish Heroines Don't Have to be Good Anymore’, New York Times, 11 May 1986, 13.
2. CitationEagleton, Heathcliff and the Great Hunger, 295.
3. Max Beerbohm, ‘Dandies and Dandies’, first published in Vanity, 7 February 1895; http://www.albany.edu/faculty/rlp96/beerbohm.html
4. CitationSmyth, ‘Being Difficult’, 54.
5. CitationMcCormack, ‘Irish Gothic and After’, 846.
6. Edna O'Brien, speaking on The Book Show, New York State Writers Institute—Writers Online, vol. 2, no. 3; http//www.albany.edu/writers-inst/olv2n3.html
7. CitationCarter, Shaking a Leg, 499.
8. Quoted in Benjamin, Citation Charles Baudelaire , 77.
9. Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, 28.
10. Quoted in Richard Woodward, ‘Edna O'Brien: Reveling in Heartbreak’, New York Times, 12 March 1989, 42.
11. Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life, 27.
12. Nuala O'Faolain, ‘Devious Cool’, The Times, 18 April 1970, 4.
13. CitationGillespie, ‘Edna O'Brien and the Comic Tradition’, 110.
14. CitationEllman, James Joyce, 194.
15. Ellman, James Joyce, 532.
16. CitationO'Brien, James Joyce, 10, 19, 29, 127, 135.
17. Richard Holmes, ‘Poetry International’, The Times, 22 June 1972, 10.
18. Carter, Shaking a Leg, 112.
19. Quoted in CitationCarlson, Banned in Ireland, 73.
20. Quoted in Carlson, Banned in Ireland, 76.
21. CitationFillin-Yeh, ‘Dandies, Marginality, and Modernism’, 174.
22. CitationFeldman, Gender on the Divide, 123.
23. Quoted in Woodward, ‘Edna O'Brien: Reveling in Heartbreak’, New York Times, 12 March 1989, 42.
24. CitationKiberd, ‘Elizabeth Bowen’, 148.
25. CitationCampbell, Lady Morgan, 208.
26. CitationGagnier, Idylls of the Marketplace, 58–59.
27. Quoted in Penny Perrick, ‘And Another Thing—Let's Have Lunch’, The Times, 3 June 1985, 9.
28. CitationFerris, The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland, 70.
29. Robert Nye, ‘Good Words for the Most Part in the Right Order’, The Times, 5 October 1972, 10.
30. CitationO'Brien, ‘The Silly and the Serious’, 185.
31. Quoted in CitationSteele, ‘Constance Markievicz's Allegorical Garden’, 424.
32. According to CitationCahalan, in The Irish Novel: A Critical History, O'Brien is ‘rivaled in the scope of her international fame perhaps only by Brian Moore, among Irish novelists’ (286).
33. CitationSammells, Wilde Style, 12.
34. As Albert Camus will acknowledge in the next century, seeing, as did CitationWalter Benjamin, the potential for fascism in the dandy's hyper-individualism and ‘aestheticisation of politics’. Sammells, Wilde Style, 119.
35. As Albert Camus will acknowledge in the next century, seeing, as did Walter Benjamin, the potential for fascism in the dandy's hyper-individualism and ‘aestheticisation of politics’. Sammells, Wilde Style, 121.
36. CitationAdams, Dandies and Desert Saints, 16.
37. CitationCurtis, Apes and Angels, 119.
38. CitationCarlyle, Sartor Resartus, 212–13.
39. Fillin-Yeh, ‘Dandies, Marginality, and Modernism’, 143.
40. Quoted in CitationMoloney and Thompson, Irish Women Writers Speak Out, 55.
41. Ferris, The Romantic National Tale, 12.
42. CitationWalden, Who is a Dandy, 46–47.
43. CitationSontag, ‘Notes on “Camp”’, 116.
44. CitationPelan, ‘Edna O'Brien's “Stage Persona”’, 75.
45. CitationRatcliff, ‘Dandyism and Abstraction in a Universe Defined by Newton’, 104.