‘He devours her with his gaze’ : Maurice Leitch’s stamping ground and the politics of the visual
(2014)
Journal Article
Magennis, C. (2014). ‘He devours her with his gaze’ : Maurice Leitch’s stamping ground and the politics of the visual. Irish University Review, 44(2), 288-304. https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2014.0125
This essay is a critical reappraisal of Maurice Leitch's 1975 novel Stamping Ground through theories of the gender, sexuality, and the visual. The novel will be read as a disruptive critique of hegemonic Unionist identity and the rural idyll in North... Read More about ‘He devours her with his gaze’ : Maurice Leitch’s stamping ground and the politics of the visual.