Irishness in North American Women's Writing - Transatlantic Affinities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Ellen McWilliams
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	186
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-53789-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-137-53789-2
Barcode:	9781137537898

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