British And Irish Women Writers And The Women S Movement

Author : Jill Franks
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786474080

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British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement by Jill Franks Pdf

This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective nations. In the first wave, nationalist and militant ideologies competed with the suffrage fight in Ireland. Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September illustrates the melancholy of gender performance and confusion of ethnic identity in the dying Anglo-Irish Ascendancy class. In England, suffrage ideologies clashed with socialism and patriotism. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway contains a political unconscious that links its characters across class and gender. In the second wave, heterosexual romantic relationships come under scrutiny. Edna O'Brien's Country Girls trilogy reveals ways in which Irish Catholic ideologies abject femaleness; her characters internalize this abjection to the point of self-destruction. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook pits the protagonist's aspirations to write novels against the Communist Party's prohibitions on bourgeois values. In the third wave, Irish writers express the frustrations of their cultural identity. Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You takes her protagonist back to Ireland to heal her psychic wounds. In England, Thatcherism had created a materialistic culture that eroded many feminists' socialist values. Fay Weldon's Big Woman satirizes the demise of second-wave idealism, asking where feminism can go from here.

Author : Caitriona Moloney,Helen Thompson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815629710

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Irish Women Writers Speak Out by Caitriona Moloney,Helen Thompson Pdf

Bringing together the diverse and marvelously articulate voices of women of Irish and Irish-American descent, editors Caitriona Moloney and Helen Thompson examine the complicated maps of experience that the women's public, private, and literary lives represent—particularly as they engage in both feminism and postcolonialism. Acknowledging Mary Robinson's revised view of Irish identity—now global rather than local—this work recognizes the importance of identity as a site of mobility. The pieces reveal how complex the terms "feminism" and "postcolonialism" are; they examine how the individual writers see their identities constructed and/or mediated by sexuality. In addition, the book traces common themes of female agency, violence, generational conflicts, migration, emigration, religion, and politics to name a few. As it represents the next wave of Irish women writers, this book offers fresh insight into the work of emerging and established authors and will appeal to a new generation of readers.

Author : Kathryn Laing,Pilar Villar-Argaiz,Sinéad Mooney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1911454188

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Irish Women - Writers - At the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Kathryn Laing,Pilar Villar-Argaiz,Sinéad Mooney Pdf

This important collection presents international research on the work of Irish women writers at the turn of the twentieth century. These essays make a key contribution to contemporary feminist recovery projects and remapping the landscape of Irish literature of this period.

Author : Trevor R. Griffiths,Margaret Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0335096026

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British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958 by Trevor R. Griffiths,Margaret Llewellyn-Jones Pdf

This is a critical reference guide to the important contribution made by women-writers to the renaissance of British drama since the late 1950s. The coverage ranges from collective work, women's companies and cabaret through to traditional single author plays. The book chronicles low-budget, short-running fringe shows as well as London productions of big name authors. It explores writing by lesbians and by black women, and examines in detail women's theatre in Wales, Scotland and Ireland (as well as England). It draws on both theoretical issues in feminist criticism, and political developments in the women's movement.

Author : Elke D'hoker
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English literature
ISBN : 3034302495

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Irish Women Writers by Elke D'hoker Pdf

After a decade in which women writers have gradually been given more recognition in the study of Irish literature, this collection proposes a reappraisal of Irish women's writing by inviting dialogues with new or hitherto marginalised critical frameworks as well as with foreign and transnational literary traditions. Several essays explore how Irish women writers engaged with European themes and traditions through the genres of travel writing, the historical novel, the monologue and the fairy tale. Other contributions are concerned with the British context in which some texts were published and argue for the existence of Irish inflections of phenomena such as the New Woman, suffragism or vegetarianism. Further chapters emphasise the transnational character of Irish women's writing by applying continental theory and French feminist thinking to various texts; in other chapters new developments in theory are applied to Irish texts for the first time. Casting the efforts of Irish women in a new light, the collection also includes explorations of the work of neglected or emerging authors who have remained comparatively ignored by Irish literary criticism.

Author : Anna Pilz,Whitney Standlee
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781526100757

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Irish women's writing, 1878–1922 by Anna Pilz,Whitney Standlee Pdf

Irish women writers entered the British and international publishing scene in unprecedented numbers in the period between 1878 and 1922. Literary history is only now beginning to give them the attention they deserve for their contributions to the literary landscape of Ireland, which has included far more women writers, with far more diverse identities, than hitherto acknowledged. This collection of new essays by leading scholars explores how women writers including Emily Lawless, L. T. Meade, Katharine Tynan, Lady Gregory, Rosa Mulholland, Ella Young and Beatrice Grimshaw used their work to advance their own private and public political concerns through astute manoeuvrings both in the expanding publishing industry and against the partisan expectations of an ever-growing readership. The chapters investigate their dialogue with a contemporary politics that included the topics of education, cosmopolitanism, language, empire, economics, philanthropy, socialism, the marriage 'market', the publishing industry, readership(s), the commercial market and employment.

Author : M. Joannou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137292179

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945 by M. Joannou Pdf

Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Author : Louise Ryan,Margaret Ward
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788551113

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Irish Women and Nationalism by Louise Ryan,Margaret Ward Pdf

Studies of Irish nationalism have been primarily historical in scope and overwhelmingly male in content. Too often, the ‘shadow of the gunman’ has dominated. Little recognition has been given to the part women have played, yet over the centuries they have undertaken a variety of roles – as combatants, prisoners, writers and politicians. In this exciting new book the full range of women’s contribution to the Irish nationalist movement is explored by writers whose interests range from the historical and sociological to the literary and cultural. From the little known contribution of women to the earliest nationalist uprisings of the 1600s and 1700s, to their active participation in the republican campaigns of the twentieth century, different chapters consider the changing contexts of female militancy and the challenge this has posed to masculine images and structures. Using a wide range of sources, including textual analysis, archives and documents, newspapers and autobiographies, interviews and action research, individual writers examine sensitive and highly complex debates around women’s role in situations of conflict. At the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, this is a major contribution to wider feminist debates about the gendering of nationalism, raising questions about the extent to which women’s rights, demands and concerns can ever be fully accommodated within nationalist movements.

Author : Heather Ingman,Clíona Ó Gallchoir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108654586

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A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature by Heather Ingman,Clíona Ó Gallchoir Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers literature in all genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction, as well as life-writing and unpublished writing, and addresses work in both English and Irish. The chapters are authored by leading experts in their field, giving readers an introduction to cutting edge research on each period and topic. Survey chapters give an essential historical overview, and are complemented by a focus on selected topics such as the short story, and key figures whose relationship to the narrative of Irish literary history is analysed and reconsidered. Demonstrating the pioneering achievements of a huge number of many hitherto neglected writers, A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature makes a critical intervention in Irish literary history.

Author : Linda Connolly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230509122

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The Irish Women’s Movement by Linda Connolly Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the emergence, consolidation and development of the Irish women's movement, as a social movement, in the course of the twentieth century. It seek to address several lacunae in Irish studies by illuminating the processes through which the movement and, in particular, networks of constituent organisations, came to fruition as agencies of social change. The central argument advanced is that when viewed historically, the Irish women's movement is characterised by its interconnectedness and continuity: the central tensions, themes and organising strategies of the movement connects diverse organisations and constituencies, over time and space. This book will be essential reading for those interested in Irish studies, sociology, history, women's studies, and politics.

Author : Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Wolfhound Press (IE)
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English literature
ISBN : OSU:32435066413709

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Border Crossings by Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick Pdf

Author : Emma Parker
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843840111

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Contemporary British Women Writers by Emma Parker Pdf

Essays illustrating the range and diversity of post-1970 British women writers. Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women's writing, British women writers have received scant critical attention. They tend to be overshadowed by their American counterparts in the media and have come to be represented within the academy almost exclusively by Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. This collection celebrates the range and diversity of contemporary (post-1970) British women writers. It challenges misconceptions about the natureand scope of fiction by women writers working in Britain - commonly dismissed as parochial, insular, dreary and domestic - and seeks to expand conventional definitions of "British" by exploring how issues of nationality intersectwith gender, class, race and sexuality. Writers covered include Pat Barker, A.L. Kennedy, Maggie Gee, Rukhsana Ahmad, Joan Riley, Jennifer Johnston, Ellen Galford, Susan Hill, Fay Weldon, Emma Tennant, and Helen Fielding. Contributors: DAVID ELLIS, CLARE HANSON, MAROULA JOANNOU, PAULINA PALMER, EMMA PARKER, FELICITY ROSSLYN, CHRISTIANE SCHLOTE, JOHN SEARS, ELUNED SUMMERS-BREMNER, IMELDA WHELEHAN, GINA WISKER.

Author : Heather Ingman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351877213

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Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women by Heather Ingman Pdf

During much of the twentieth century, Irish women's position was on the boundaries of national life. Using Julia Kristeva's theories of nationhood, often particularly relevant to Ireland, this study demonstrates that their marginalization was to women's, and indeed the nation's, advantage as Irish women writers used their voice to subvert received pieties both about women and about the Irish nation. Kristevan theories of the other, the foreigner, the semiotic, the mother, and the sacred are explored in authors as diverse as Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien, Edna O'Brien, Mary Dorcey, Jennifer Johnston, and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, as well as authors from Northern Ireland like Deirdre Madden, Polly Devlin, and Mary Morrissy. These writers, whose voices have frequently been sidelined or misunderstood because they write against the grain of their country's cultural heritage, finally receive their due in this important contribution to Irish and gender studies.

Author : Patricia Coughlan,Tina O'Toole
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 190450535X

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Irish Literature by Patricia Coughlan,Tina O'Toole Pdf

Feminist perspectives on Irish literature

Author : Holly A. Laird
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137393807

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1880-1920 by Holly A. Laird Pdf

The ranks of English women writers rose steeply in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, contributing to the era’s revolutionary social movements as well as to transforming literary genres in prose and poetry. The phenomena of ‘the new’ — ‘New Women’, ‘New Unionism’, ‘New Imperialism’, ‘New Ethics’, ‘New Critics’, ‘New Journalism’, ‘New Man’ — are this moment’s touchstones. This book tracks the period's new social phenomena and unfolds its distinctively modern modes of writing. It provides expert introductions amid new insights into women’s writing throughout the United Kingdom and around the globe.