The Irish new woman / Tina O'Toole, Lecturer in English, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Toole, Tina.

Series:

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

English literature--Irish authors.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Feminism and literature--Ireland--History--19th century.

Feminism and literature.

Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Feminist literary criticism.

Literature and history.

History.

Great Britain.

Literature and history--Ireland--History--19th century.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Politics and literature.

Feminist literary criticism--Ireland.

Decadence (Literary movement).

Sex role in literature.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

ix, 204 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

The Irish New Woman explores the connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siècle. From the 1880s on, the 'Irish Question' was a central site of struggle in British and Irish public discourse, and in this turbulent period a new generation of Irish literary writers began to resist hegemonies of a different kind, subverting gender and sexual identities and challenging prescribed roles in the family. This important new book is the first in-depth study to foregrounds the Irish contexts for New Woman literature, effecting a paradigm shift in the critical reception of fin de siècle writers and their work. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: The Irish new woman

Feminism and famine

Empire girls

The new woman and the land war

The new mother Ireland

The new woman and the boy

The transnational new woman

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-194) and index.

ISBN:

9780230313910

0230313914

OCLC:

837143442

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