03377nam 2200637 a 450 991082530900332120200520144314.00-268-07862-9(CKB)2560000000050951(EBL)3440969(SSID)ssj0000487966(PQKBManifestationID)11360582(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487966(PQKBWorkID)10445898(PQKB)10937962(MiAaPQ)EBC3440969(OCoLC)694144455(MdBmJHUP)muse9949(Au-PeEL)EBL3440969(CaPaEBR)ebr10423293(EXLCZ)99256000000005095120070918d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrToo smart to be sentimental contemporary Irish American women writers /edited by Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney ; foreword by Caledonia Kearns1st ed.Notre Dame, Ind. University of Notre Dame Pressc20081 online resource (288 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-268-02773-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Mary Mccarthy : too smart to be sentimental / Sally Barr Ebest -- Maureen Howard's "Landscapes of memory" / Patricia Keefe Durso -- Moments of kindness, moments of recognition : the achievement of Maeve Brennan / John M. Menaghan -- "Forget about being Irish" : family, transgression, and identity in the fiction of Elizabeth Cullinan / Kathleen McInerney -- Alice McDermott's narrators / Beatrice Jacobson -- Tess Gallagher : a network of sympathies and distant connections / Mary Ann Ryan -- "I'm your man" : Irish American masculinity in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Susana Araujo -- Hardly sentimental : the "bad girls" and lonely men of Mary McGarry Morris's fiction / Patricia Gott -- Blurring boundaries : Eileen Myles and the Irish American identity / Kathleen Ann Kremins -- The world of Mary Gordon : writing from the "other side" / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw -- Jean McGarry : sojourners between dreams and realities / Amy Lee -- Erin McGraw : expanding the tradition of Irish American women writers / Sally Barr Ebest.Through a series of critical and biographical essays, this work offers a feminist literary history of twentieth-century Irish America.American literatureIrish American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismIrish Americans in literatureIrish AmericansEthnic identityAmerican literatureIrish American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Irish Americans in literature.Irish AmericansEthnic identity.810.9/9287Ebest Sally Barr1671199McInerney Kathleen H1671200MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825309003321Too smart to be sentimental4033576UNINA