Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 260 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781526100740
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1526100746
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9781526100757
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1526100754
Series Statement:
EBSCO Academic Collection
Content:
Providing an important intervention in contemporary Irish cultural-critical debate, this collection explores how Irish women writers exercised their political concerns and influence through their literary outputs during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; An Irish women of letters' banquet and a toast to the King; Advancing the cause of liberty; Then and now; Notes; 1 Works, righteousness, philanthropy, and the market in the novels of Charlotte Riddell; Riddell, the Irish national tale, and the limits of Edgeworthian rationalism; Moral realism and the 'fallen woman'; Falling feudalism: Riddell's critique of Charles Lever's 'rollicking'; Notes
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2 'She's nothin' but a shadda': the politics of marriage in late MulhollandNotes; 3 Nature, education, and liberty in The Book of Gilly by Emily Lawless; Notes; 4 Girls with 'go': female homosociality in L.T. Meade's schoolgirl novels; Notes; 5 'Breaking away': Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer; Notes; 6 Women, ambition, and the city, 1890-1910; The city in Irish writing; Rejecting the West; Ambition, New Women, and the city; Imposters in Paris; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; 7 'An Irish problem': bilingual manoeuvres in the work of Somerville and Ross; Notes
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8 'A bad master': religion, Jacobitism, and the politics of representation in Lady Gregory's The White CockadeNotes; 9 'Old wine in new bottles'? Katharine Tynan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and George Wyndham; Notes; 10 'The blind side of the heart': Protestants, politics, and patriarchy in the novels of F.E. Crichton; The Precepts of Andy Saul (1908); The Blind Side of the Heart (1915); Notes; 11 'The Red Sunrise': gender, violence, and nation in Ella Young's vision of a new Ireland; Druidess; Poet; Warrior; Notes
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12 Liberté, égalité, sororité: the poetics of suffrage in the work of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance MarkieviczNotes; Bibliography; archives; electronic databases; newspapers and periodicals; printed sources; Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781526127112
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Irish women's writing, 1878-1922 Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016 ISBN 0719097584
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780719097584
Language:
English
