Changing Ireland : strategies in contemporary women's fiction / Christine St. Peter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

St. Peter, Christine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Irish authors.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction--Women authors.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--Ireland--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Ireland.

History.

Ireland--In literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 217 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

During the past twenty-five years, Ireland has seen explosion of women's fiction -- hundreds of published works that reimagine the inherited literary traditions and the social contexts of women's lives. Changing Ireland examines women's use of historical fiction, exile literature, Northern war narratives, speculative fiction, and classic "realism", and looks at the local Irish forms of international women's genres like the romance novel and feminist fiction.

Contents:

Introduction

Authorship, the forbidden country

Women writing exile

Returning from the 'Ghost Place': Recomposing history

'The war that has gone into us': Troubles from the North

Traveling back home: The blockbusters of Patricia Scanlan and Maeve Binchy

Feminist fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-207) and index.

ISBN:

0312227108

OCLC:

41468817