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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797194603321

Autore

Fanning Charles

Titolo

The Irish voice in America : 250 years of Irish-American fiction / / Charles Fanning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

0-8131-4833-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (459 p.)

Disciplina

813.009/89162

Soggetti

American fiction - Irish American authors - History and criticism

Irish Americans - Intellectual life

Irish Americans in literature

Ireland In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. The Two Cycles of Irish-American Fiction""; ""1. Backgrounds and a Habit of Satire""; ""2. The Profession of Novelist: James McHenry and Charles Cannon""; ""3. The Famine Generation: Practical Fiction for Immigrants""; ""4. Mrs. Sadlier and Father Quigley""; ""5. Respectability and Realism: Ambivalent Fictions""; ""6. Mr. Egan and Mr. Dooley""; ""7. A Generation Lost""; ""8. James T. Farrell and Irish-American Fiction""; ""9. Regional Realists of the Thirties and Forties""

""10. ""These Traits Endure"": The Irish Voice in Recent American Fiction""""11. Liberating Doubleness in the Nineties""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""