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Irishness in North American Women's Writing - by Ellen McWilliams (Hardcover)

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  • This book examines ideas of Irishness in the writing of Mary McCarthy, Maeve Brennan, Alice McDermott, Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart, and Emma Donoghue.
  • About the Author: Ellen McWilliams is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter, UK.
  • 186 Pages
  • Literary Criticism, American

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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.



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'This is a lively, thought-provoking, engrossing, and eminently readable study of cross-connections in North American women's writing. Irishness in North American Women's Writing: Transatlantic Affinities is a timely, original, and richly observant study of six diverse women writers and a valuable intervention in the field of transatlantic studies.'

-- Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin, Ireland


'This absorbing, historically informed study further enhances Ellen McWilliams' scholarly credentials in the field of Irish diasporic literary studies. Written in a lucid, accessible style, her book is an essential tool for those who wish to deepen their understanding of the subtleties of the transatlantic exchanges that make the work of these six North American women writers so compelling.'

--Liam Harte, University of Manchester, UK


'Ellen McWilliams' ground-breaking study, Irishness in North American Women's Writing: Transatlantic Affinities, extends the critical landscape on major Irish-American and Irish-Canadian women authors: her nuanced investigations excitingly broaden transatlantic studies and complicate essentialist readings of Irish, Canadian, and American nationalism. Furthermore, by examining Irish-Canadian women's literature, the volume addresses an enormous critical gap.'

-- Kate Costello-Sullivan, Le Moyne College, New York, USA

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 anAmerican and Canadian context; transatlantic literary exchanges and the influence of canonical Irish writers; and ideas of exile in the work of diasporic women writers.



About the Author



Ellen McWilliams is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman (2009) and Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction (2013) and has received a number of awards for research, including an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholar Award.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.27 Inches (H) x 5.83 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: .86 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: American
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 186
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Ellen McWilliams
Language: English
Street Date: January 25, 2021
TCIN: 94041244
UPC: 9781137537898
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-8121
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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