Ellen Scheible

Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction

The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland

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Produktbeschreibung

Scheible examines how modern and contemporary Irish fiction often employs the Irish domestic interior and representations of the female body as Mother Ireland to emphasize the biopolitical relationship between Irish femininity, female sexuality, and the nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781350429109
• ISBN-10: 1350429104
• Artikelnr.: 70611430

Autorenporträt

Ellen Scheible is Professor of English and coordinator of Irish Studies at Bridgewater State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Body Politics in the (Home) Nation Chapter 1: Mirroring and
the Female Body in James Joyce Chapter 2: The Danger of the Domestic Body:
Bridget Cleary, Big House Modernism, and Tana French Chapter 3: Reflection,
Anxiety, and the Feminized Body: The Contemporary Irish Gothic Chapter 4:
Bildung and the Non-reproductive Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women's
Writing Chapter 5: "Boneless, Grotesque": Institutionalized Masculinity and
Female Containment in Tana French's The Witch Elm Chapter 6: Normal People,
Then and Now: James Joyce and Sally Rooney Conclusion Index