Tina O'Toole

The Irish New Woman

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Produktbeschreibung

The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siècle . This is the first study which foregrounds the Irish and New Woman contexts, effecting a paradigm shift in the critical reception of fin de siècle writers and their work.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-33938-9
• 1st ed.
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781349339389
• ISBN-10: 1349339385
• Artikelnr.: 45074245

Autorenporträt

Tina O'Toole is Lecturer in English in the School of Language, Literature, Culture and Communication at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Irish New Woman 1. Feminism and Famine 2. Empire Girls 3. The New Woman and the Land War 4. The 'New' Mother Ireland 5. The New Woman and the Boy 6. The Transnational New Woman Conclusion Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

'O'Toole has admirably accomplished her stated goal of 'complicat[ing] and enrich[ing] conventional narratives of literary history as well as the discourses of gender, sexual and national identities.'' Maureen O'Connor, Irish Literary Supplement