Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality, and the Second World War

by Anna Teekell

Taking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II, "the Emergency," Anna Teekell's Emergency Writing asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for writing to be a response to an emergency.

Anchored in close textual analysis of works by Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O'Brien, Louis MacNeice, Denis Devlin, and Patrick Kavanagh, and supported by archival material and historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810137259
• ISBN13: 9780810137257
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"