After a decade in which women writers have gradually been given more recognition in the study of Irish literature, this collection proposes a reappraisal of Irish women’s writing by inviting dialogues
From the legendary poet Oisin to modernist masters like James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett, Ireland's literary tradition has made its mark on the Western canon. Despite its proud tr
In an examination of the prose and poetry of Irish women writers from the late eighteenth century through the present, contributors to this collection argue that a hidden tradition of women's comedy h
This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present.?George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O’B
This volume presents interviews with 17 contemporary Irish and Irish American women fiction writers. Moloney (English, Bradley U., Peoria) and Thompson (English, U. of Louisiana, Lafayette) asked ques
Exploring two centuries of Irish women's writing, contributors from Ireland and the United States show how these women have struggled against both colonialism and their own patriarchal nation. Writing
This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective nations. In the first wave, nationalist and militant ideologies competed
Fulmer (U. of California, Berkeley) finds remarkable links between African American and Irish women writers, tracing an intellectual genealogical line from Lavin to Ni Dhuibhne and from Hurston to Mor
In a series of critical and biographical essays, Too Smart to Be Sentimental offers a feminist literary history of twentieth-century Irish America. This collection introduces the reader to the works o
In twentieth-century Ireland the relationship between the personal past and narrative history has exerted a shaping force on the lives of individual writers and on the formation of literary communitie
Building on the long-standing image of Paris as the "Capital of the Nineteenth Century" and the "Capital of Modernity," this book examines the city's place in the imagination of Irish women writers in
Ebest (English and gender studies, U. of Missouri-St. Louis) takes on Irish-American writers and places them firmly on the feminist landscape, ranging from Mother Jones, Kate Chopin and Margaret Mitch
