Foreword by Claire Bracken ix
Introduction 1
Ellen Scheible and Barry Devine

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
1 Youth Struggle and Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland in Sally Rooney's Novels 11
María Amor Barros-del Río
2 "Something New and Uncomfortably Familiar": Sally Rooney's Elusive Play with Genre 22
Jennifer A. Slivka
3 "Bit Hard to Fit In": Sally Rooney and Ireland's Campus Novel 36
Deirdre Flynn
4 The Relational Novel in an Era of Individualization 53
Mary M. McGlynn
5 "Maybe What Keats Meant": Sally Rooney and Romanticism 70
Colleen English
6 "Two Little Plants Sharing the Same Plot of Soil": Twinned Bildungsromans in Sally Rooney's Normal People 84
Cassidy Allen
7 "Lockdown Lovers": The Spaces of Television's Normal People 98
Matthew J. Fee
8 Conversations with Friends and the Queer Comedy of Remarriage 115
Katarzyna Bartoszyńska

PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES
9 "I Kind of Suffer from Anxiety with These Things": Disconnect and Emotional Resonance for College Students Reading Sally Rooney's Novels 129
Molly Ferguson
10 Edited Selves in Sally Rooney's Fiction, or How I Learned to Think Like a Millennial 143
Rachael Sealy Lynch
11 Moral Injury in Sally Rooney's Normal People 157
John C. Kerrigan
12 Teaching Narrative Empathy with Beautiful World, Where Are You 171
Barry Devine
13 Trauma, Writing, and Healing in Sally Rooney's Normal People: A Pedagogical Approach 188
Melania Terrazas

Coda Revitalizing the Humanities: Gender, Literature, and the Crisis of Masculinity in Rooney's Intermezzo 202
Kristy DeStefano
Acknowledgments 213
Bibliography 215
Notes on Contributors 229
Index 232

Sally Rooney

Perspectives and Approaches