Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story

by Elke D'hoker

Book Overview

This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many Irish women writers who have made lasting contributions to the genre of the modern short story - yet their achievements have often been marginalized in literary histories, which typically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319807706
• ISBN13: 9783319807706
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"