Irishness in North American Women's Writing: Transatlantic Affinities

By Ellen McWilliams

Book Overview

1. Transatlantic Affinities: Irishness in North American Women's Writing.- 2. Unsettling Irish America: Self-Authorship and the Writing of Mary McCarthy.- 3.Irish-American Immigrant Histories and Readings of Exile in the Writing of Maeve Brennan.- 4. 'A Genetic Trait': Alice McDermott's Irish America.- 5. The Lonely Voice: Alice Munro and Ireland.- 6. Irish-Canadian Connections: Jane Urquhart's Historical Fictions.- 7. Transatlantic Encounters in the Writing of Emma Donoghue.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137537892
• ISBN13: 9781137537898
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"