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Irish women's fiction [electronic resource]

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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

Title Irish women's fiction [electronic resource] : from Edgeworth to Enright / Heather Ingman.
Publisher Dublin : Irish Academic Press
Creation Date 2013
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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
Extent 1 online resource (313 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010712620405171
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