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Irishness in North American women's writing : transatlantic affinities / Ellen McWilliams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McWilliams, Ellen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Women authors, American--History and criticism.
- Women authors, American.
- Women authors, Canadian--History and criticism.
- Women authors, Canadian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1 Transatlantic Affinities: Irishness in North American Women's Writing
- Ireland and Transatlantic Literary Studies: Points of Departure
- Transatlantic Irish Women: Literary and Historical Encounters
- Works Cited
- 2 Unsettling Irish America: Self-Authorship and the Writing of Mary McCarthy
- Looking for Irish America in Mary McCarthy's Life Writing
- Self-Authorship and Strategies of Evasion in the Memoirs of Mary McCarthy
- Mary McCarthy and the Making of a New York Intellectual
- Works Cited
- 3 Irish-American Immigrant Histories and Readings of Exile in the Writing of Maeve Brennan
- Irish Domestic Servants and Middle-Class America in Maeve Brennan's Writing
- Avenging 'Bridget': Servant Insurrections in Maeve Brennan's Short Stories
- Maeve Brennan's 'Long-Winded Lady' in Exile
- Mapping the Metropolis and the Last Days of New York City
- 4 'A Genetic Trait': Alice McDermott's Irish America
- Irish-American Futures in Alice McDermott's Fiction
- Alice McDermott and the Lives of Irish-American Women
- 'Second Edition': Alice McDermott's Transatlantic Forebears
- Works Cited
- 5 The Lonely Voice: Alice Munro and Ireland
- Irish and Canadian Literary Revivals
- 'The Same People Living in the Same Place': Portraits of the Artist in James Joyce and Alice Munro
- Alice Munro's Irish Compatriots
- 6 Irish-Canadian Connections: Jane Urquhart's Historical Fictions
- 'Where Is Here?'-Reading Canada and Ireland in the Fiction of Jane Urquhart
- The Trauma of Irish History in Jane Urquhart's Away
- Adapting the National Tale: Jane Urquhart's The Night Stages
- 7 Transatlantic Encounters in the Writing of Emma Donoghue
- Relocations: Emma Donoghue's Literary Nomadism
- From 'Hibernian Metropolis' to Canadian 'Bush Garden': Unravelling the Nation in Emma Donoghue's Landing
- Conclusion: The Woman Writer at Home and Astray
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: McWilliams, Ellen Irishness in North American Women's Writing
- ISBN:
- 9781137537881
- 1137537884
- Publisher Number:
- 99986873933
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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