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1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations |
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Seeking a tradition : Irish women's fiction -- Maria Edgeworth : domestic saga -- Somerville and Ross : ignoble tragedy -- Elizabeth Bowen : out of Eden -- Kate O'Brien : family in the new nation -- Mary Lavin : textual gardens -- Molly Keane : bildungsromane quenelles -- Julia O'Faolain : the imaginative crucible -- Jennifer Johnston : from Gortnaree to Knappogue -- Irish women writers : the experience of the mass |
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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 tradition, the student who searches the shelves for works on Irish women's fiction is liabel to feel much as Virginia Woolf did when she searched the British Museum for work on women by women. Critic Nuala O'Faolain, when confronted with this disparity, suggested that ""modern Irish literature is dominated by men so brilliant in their misanthropy ... [that] the self-respect of Irish women is radicall |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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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
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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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Literature
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Women and literature
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Women -- Intellectual life
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Ireland -- In literature
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Ireland
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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