‘A Fairy Boy of Eleven, a Changeling, Kidnapped, Dressed in an Eton Suit’: Precarious, Lost and Recovered Children in Anglophone Irish Modernism

This chapter explores the evolution of the literary faery changeling, reading this figure as a response to British white supremacy. Backus argues that both Joyce and Yeats transformed folkloric accounts of changelings into heretical representations of figures caught between different Irish orthodoxies.