Irish Women's Writing, 1878-1922

Advancing the Cause of Liberty
Herausgeber: Pilz, Anna; Standlee, Whitney

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Produktbeschreibung

Irish women writers entered the international publishing scene in unprecedented numbers in the period between 1878 and 1922. This collection of new essays explores how Irish women, officially disenfranchised through much of that era, felt inclined and at liberty to exercise their political influence through the unofficial channels of their literary output. By challenging existing and often narrowly-defined conceptions of what constitutes 'politics', this collection investigates Irish women writers' responses to, expressions of, and dialogue with contemporary politics. The political debates into which they entered included not only the debates surrounding nationalism and unionism, but also those concerning education, cosmopolitanism, language, Empire, economics, philanthropy, socialism, the marriage 'market', the publishing industry, readership(s), the commercial market, and employment. The collection demonstrates how women from a variety of religious, social, and regional backgrounds - including Emily Lawless, L. T. Meade, Katharine Tynan, Lady Gregory, Rosa Mulholland, and the Ulster writers Ella Young, Beatrice Grimshaw, and F. E. Crichton - 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. Close readings of individual texts are framed throughout by new archival research and detailed historical contextualisation. Offering fresh critical perspectives by internationally renowned scholars including James H. Murphy, Margaret Kelleher, Patrick Maume, Eve Patten, and Heidi Hansson, Irish women's writing, 1878-1922 is an innovative and essential contribution to the study of Irish literature as well as women's writing at the turn of the twentieth century. It includes a foreword by Lia Mills, author of the critically acclaimed Fallen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781526127112
• ISBN-10: 1526127113
• Artikelnr.: 49389680

Autorenporträt

Anna Pilz is Irish Research Council Fellow in the School of English at the University College Cork Whitney Standlee is Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Worcester

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures List of contributors Foreword by Lia Mills Acknowledgements
Introduction - Anna Pilz and Whitney Standlee 1. Works, righteousness,
philanthropy and the market in the novels of Charlotte Riddell - Patrick
Maume 2. 'She's nothin' but a shadda': the politics of marriage in late
Mulholland - James H. Murphy 3. Nature, education, and liberty in The Book
of Gilly by Emily Lawless - Heidi Hansson 4. Girls with 'go': female
homosociality in L. T. Meade's schoolgirl novels - Whitney Standlee 5.
'Breaking away': Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer - Jane
Mahony and Eve Patten 6. Women, ambition and the city, 1890-1910 - Ciaran
O'Neill and Mai Yatani 7. 'An Irish problem': bilingual manoeuvres in the
work of Somerville and Ross - Margaret Kelleher 8. 'A bad master':
religion, Jacobitism and the politics of representation in Lady Gregory's
The White Cockade - Anna Pilz 9. 'Old wine in new bottles'? Katharine
Tynan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald and George Wyndham - Kieron Winterson 10.
'The blind side of the heart': Protestants, politics and patriarchy in the
novels of F. E. Crichton - Naomi Doak 11. 'The Red Sunrise': gender,
violence and nation in Ella Young's vision of a New Ireland - Aurelia Annat
12. Liberté, égalité, sororité: the poetics of suffrage in the work of Eva
Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz - Lauren Arrington Bibliography Index