Irish women's fiction : from Edgeworth to Enright / Heather Ingman.

Author/creator Ingman, Heather, 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoDublin : Irish Academic Press, 2013.
Descriptionxvii, 294 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Irish fiction--History and criticism.
Irish literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
English fiction--Irish authors. --History and criticism.
Women authors, Irish--History and criticism.
Women--Ireland. --Intellectual life.
Women and literature--Ireland. --History.

Contents The nineteenth century : literary foremothers -- Bicycles and trousers : the new woman writer -- 1910-1939 : disillusionment -- The Second World War and after : stagnation and unease -- The 1960s and '70s : sex, religion, and exile -- The 1980s and '90s : from feminism to postmodernism -- The new woman in the Celtic Tiger years and after.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-264) and index.
LCCN 2012286417
ISBN9780716531487 (cloth)
ISBN0716531488 (cloth)
ISBN9780716531531 (paper)
ISBN0716531534 (paper)