Studies of Irish fiction are still scanty in contrast to studies of
Irish poetry and drama. Attempting to fill a large critical
vacancy, Irish Novels 1890-1940 is a comprehensive survey of
popular and minor fiction (mainly novels) published between 1890
and 1922, a crucial period in Irish cultural and political history.
Since the bulk of these sixty-odd writers have never been written
about, certainly beyond brief mentions, the book opens up for
further exploration a literary landscape, hitherto neglected,
perhaps even unsuspected. This new landscape should alter the
familiar perspectives on Irish literature of the period, first of
all by adding genre fiction (science fiction, detective novels,
ghost stories, New Woman fiction, and Great War novels) to the
Irish syllabus, secondly by demonstrating the immense contribution
of women writers to popular and mainstream Irish fiction.
Among the popular and prolific female writers discussed are Mrs
J.H. Riddell, B.M. Croker, M.E. Francis, Sarah Grand, Katharine
Tynan, Ella MacMahon, Katherine Cecil Thurston, W.M. Letts, and
Hannah Lynch. Indeed, a critical inference of the survey is that if
there is a discernible tradition of the Irish novel, it is largely
a female tradition. A substantial postscript surveys novels by
Irish women between 1922 and1940 and relates them to the work of
their female antecedents. This ground-breaking survey should also
alter the familiar perspectives on the Ireland of 1890-1922. Many
of the popular works were problem-novels and hence throw light on
contemporary thinking and debate on the "Irish Question." After the
Irish Literary Revival and creation of the Free State, much popular
and mainstream fiction becamea lost archive, neglected evidence,
indeed, of a lost Ireland.
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