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Too smart to be sentimental : contemporary Irish American women writers / edited by Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney ; foreword by Caledonia Kearns.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Irish American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Irish Americans in literature.
- Irish Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Irish Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through a series of critical and biographical essays, this work offers a feminist literary history of twentieth-century Irish America.
- Contents:
- Mary Mccarthy : too smart to be sentimental / Sally Barr Ebest
- Maureen Howard's "Landscapes of memory" / Patricia Keefe Durso
- Moments of kindness, moments of recognition : the achievement of Maeve Brennan / John M. Menaghan
- "Forget about being Irish" : family, transgression, and identity in the fiction of Elizabeth Cullinan / Kathleen McInerney
- Alice McDermott's narrators / Beatrice Jacobson
- Tess Gallagher : a network of sympathies and distant connections / Mary Ann Ryan
- "I'm your man" : Irish American masculinity in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Susana Araujo
- Hardly sentimental : the "bad girls" and lonely men of Mary McGarry Morris's fiction / Patricia Gott
- Blurring boundaries : Eileen Myles and the Irish American identity / Kathleen Ann Kremins
- The world of Mary Gordon : writing from the "other side" / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
- Jean McGarry : sojourners between dreams and realities / Amy Lee
- Erin McGraw : expanding the tradition of Irish American women writers / Sally Barr Ebest.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268078621
- 0268078629
- OCLC:
- 694144455
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