... Union in Irish and English writingmap of ‘ English studies’’ in a fashion that will provoke a more compre-hensive rethinking of what Irishness meant for the construction ofEnglishness in the nineteenth ... of this bookowes much to the in uence of their writings on my own.Yet my disciplinary training and location in US English studies, aswell as my investment in a feminist postcolonial mode of analysis, ... should disappear in England as it has in France, alldistinctions would thereby be lost. Here Burke avows the central role ofmasculine heterosexual discipline in creating and maintaining social,political,...