Irishness in North American Women's Writing : Transatlantic Affinities, Hardc...

by Ellen Mcwilliams

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Irishness in North American Women's Writing : Transatlantic Affinities, Hardcover by Mcwilliams, Ellen, ISBN 1137537892, ISBN-13 9781137537898, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book examines ideas of Irishness in the writing of Mary McCarthy, Maeve Brennan, Alice McDermott, Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart, and Emma Donoghue. Individual chapters engage in detail with questions central to the social or literary history of Irish women in North America and pay special attention to the following: discourses of Irish femininity in twentieth-century American and Canadian literature; mythologies of Irishness in an American and Canadian context; transatlantic literary exchanges and the influence of canonical Irish writers; and ideas of exile in the work of diasporic women writers.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Limited
• Year: 2021
• ISBN: 9781137537898
• Condition: Fine

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