Private Histories - The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900-1935 (Hardcover)

Private Histories is a complete literary history of the American Irish during the first part of the twentieth century. Ron Ebest offers a fresh perspective on familiar novelists, dramatists, and poets, introduces readers to a number of important writers who are often overlooked, and reveals rarely considered aspects of Irish-American social history. Ebest analyzes themes of particular importance to early twentieth-century Irish Americans - such as religion, marriage, family, economic hardship, social status, and education - in the writings of well-known authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Eugene O'Neill. He also explores these issues in the works of lesser known authors such as the Vanity Fair satirist Anne O'Hagan, labor activist and novelist Jim Tully, muckraking journalist Clara Laughlin, and the mystery writer John T. McIntyre. Ebest's highly readable style makes Private Histories an excellent book for undergraduate and graduate courses on Irish-American literature and history, as well as for general readers interested in this fascinating subject.

General

Imprint:	University of Notre Dame Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Ron Ebest
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	334
ISBN-13:	978-0-268-02771-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-268-02771-4
Barcode:	9780268027711

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