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Irish women's writing, 1878-1922


Irish women's writing, 1878-1922

Advancing the cause of liberty
1. Aufl.

von: Anna Pilz, Whitney Standlee

26,99 €

Verlag: Manchester University Press
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 01.07.2016
ISBN/EAN: 9781526100757
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 296

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<p>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. <br><br>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.</p>
Providing an important intervention in contemporary Irish cultural-critical debate, this collection explores how Irish women writers exercised their political concerns and influence through their literary outputs during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
<p>Foreword by Lia Mills<br>Introduction - Anna Pilz and Whitney Standlee<br>1 Works, righteousness, philanthropy, and the market in the novels of Charlotte Riddell - Patrick Maume<br>2 'She's nothin' but a shadda': the politics of marriage in late Mulholland - James H. Murphy<br>3 Nature, education, and liberty in The Book of Gilly by Emily Lawless - Heidi Hansson <br>4 Girls with 'go': female homosociality in L. T. Meade's schoolgirl novels - Whitney Standlee<br>5 'Breaking away': Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer - Jane Mahony and Eve Patten<br>6 Women, ambition, and the city, 1890-1910 - Ciaran O'Neill and Mai Yatani<br>7 'An Irish problem': bilingual manoeuvres in the work of Somerville and Ross - Margaret Kelleher<br>8 'A bad master': religion, Jacobitism, and the politics of representation in Lady Gregory's The White Cockade - Anna Pilz <br>9 'Old wine in new bottles'? Katharine Tynan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and George Wyndham - Kieron Winterson <br>10 'The blind side of the heart': Protestants, politics and patriarchy in the novels of F. E. Crichton - Naomi Doak<br>11 'The red sunrise': gender, violence, and nation in Ella Young's vision of a New Ireland - Aurelia Annat<br>12 Liberté, égalité, sororité: the poetics of suffrage in the work of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz - Lauren Arrington</p>
<p>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.<br><br> 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 a contemporary political landscape. This landscape included the debates surrounding nationalism and unionism, together with 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. <br><br> Offering fresh critical perspectives by internationally-renowned scholars including James H. Murphy, Margaret Kelleher, Patrick Maume, Eve Patten, and Heidi Hansson, <i>Irish women's writing, 1878-1922 </i>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.</p>

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