| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages) |
| Contents |
Prelims; Title page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; CHAPTER ONE; The Nineteenth Century: Literary Foremothers; CHAPTER TWO; Bicycles and Trousers: The New Woman Writer; CHAPTER THREE; 1910-1939: Disillusionment; CHAPTER FOUR; The Second World War and After: Stagnation and Unease; CHAPTER FIVE; The 1960s and '70s: Sex, Religion and Exile; CHAPTER SIX; The 1980s and '90s: From Feminism to Postmodernism; CHAPTER SEVEN; The New Woman in the Celtic Tiger Years and After; Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
The topic of Irish women's writing is still a neglected one, with women's novels too often sidelined, despite the international recognition gained by prize-winning novels written by such authors as Anne Enright and Emma Donoghue, among others. Irish Women's Fiction examines women's novels up to and following: the establishment of the Irish state, the period of the Second World War, the Second Wave of feminism in the 1970s, to postmodernism in the 1990s. The book discusses Irish women's writing across all major genres both literary and popular, including children's writing, crime fiction, an |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Women -- Ireland -- Intellectual life
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Women and literature -- Ireland -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction -- Irish authors
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English fiction -- Women authors
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Women and literature
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Women -- Intellectual life
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Englisch
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Frauenroman
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Ireland
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Irland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780716531906 |
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0716531909 |
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