Border crossings : Irish women writers and national identities / edited by Kathryn Kirkpatrick.

Other author Kirkpatrick, Kathryn J.
Format Book
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000.
Descriptionix, 305 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
English literature--Irish authors. --History and criticism.
English literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
Women and literature--Ireland. --History.
Group identity in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Ireland--In literature.

Contents Introduction / Kathryn Kirkpatrick -- Acts of union: family violence and national courtship in Maria Edgeworth's The absentee and Sydney Owenson's The wild Irish girl / Julia Anne Miller -- Forging a tradition: Emily Lawless and the Irish literary canon / James M. Cahalan -- "Things which seem to you unfeminine": gender and nationalism in the fiction of some upper middle class Catholic women novelists, 1880-1910 / James H. Murphy -- Irish poetry and the modernist canon: a reappraisal of Katharine Tynan / Donna L. Potts -- "A woman of the house": gender and nationalism in the writings of Augusta Gregory / Anne Fogarty -- A trackless road: Irish nationalisms and lesbian writing / Ann Owens Weekes -- Women are trousers / Medbh McGuckian -- Revisionist cartography: the politics of place in Boland and Heaney / Katie Conboy -- Reproducing the nation: nationalism, reproduction, and paternalism in Anne Devlin's Ourselves alone / Ann Rea -- "Instead I said I am a home baker": nationalist ideology and materialist politics in Mary Beckett's Give them stones / Megan Sullivan -- Public spaces, private lives: Irish identity and female selfhood in the novels of Jennifer Johnston / Rachael Sealy Lynch -- The attic LIPs: feminist pamphleteering for the new Ireland / Katherine Martin Gray.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99006804
ISBN0817309977 (alk. paper)
ISBN0817309969 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR8733 .B67 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold