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

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Ingman, Heather, 1953-
Published
Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages)
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English.
Contents
Prelims; Title page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; CHAPTER ONE; The Nineteenth Century: Literary Foremothers; CHAPTER TWO; Bicycles and Trousers: The New Woman Writer; CHAPTER THREE; 1910-1939: Disillusionment; CHAPTER FOUR; The Second World War and After: Stagnation and Unease; CHAPTER FIVE; The 1960s and '70s: Sex, Religion and Exile; CHAPTER SIX; The 1980s and '90s: From Feminism to Postmodernism; CHAPTER SEVEN; The New Woman in the Celtic Tiger Years and After; Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Notes; Index.
Summary
The topic of Irish women's writing is still a neglected one, with women's novels too often sidelined, despite the international recognition gained by prize-winning novels written by such authors as Anne Enright and Emma Donoghue, among others. Irish Women's Fiction examines women's novels up to and following: the establishment of the Irish state, the period of the Second World War, the Second Wave of feminism in the 1970s, to postmodernism in the 1990s. The book discusses Irish women's writing across all major genres both literary and popular, including children's writing, crime fiction, an.
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ISBN
9780716531906 (electronic bk.)
0716531909 (electronic bk.)
9780716531487 (cloth)
9780716531531 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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