LEADER 04080oam 2200493 450 001 9910484143003321 005 20230919093450.0 010 $a1-137-53788-4 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-53788-1 035 $a(OCoLC)1398009723 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL57P7 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000433655 100 $a20230912h20212021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIrishness in North American women's writing $eTransatlantic affinities /$fEllen McWilliams 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 186 pages) 225 0 $aGale eBooks 311 $a1-137-53789-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $a?This is a lively, thought-provoking, engrossing, and eminently readable study of cross-connections in North American women?s writing. Irishness in North American Women?s Writing: Transatlantic Affinities is a timely, original, and richly observant study of six diverse women writers and a valuable intervention in the field of transatlantic studies.? ? Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin, Ireland 'This absorbing, historically informed study further enhances Ellen McWilliams? scholarly credentials in the field of Irish diasporic literary studies. Written in a lucid, accessible style, her book is an essential tool for those who wish to deepen their understanding of the subtleties of the transatlantic exchanges that make the work of these six North American women writers so compelling.? ?Liam Harte, University of Manchester, UK ?Ellen McWilliams? ground-breaking study, Irishness in North American Women?s Writing: Transatlantic Affinities, extends the critical landscape on major Irish-American and Irish-Canadian women authors: her nuanced investigations excitingly broaden transatlantic studies and complicate essentialist readings of Irish, Canadian, and American nationalism. Furthermore, by examining Irish-Canadian women?s literature, the volume addresses an enormous critical gap.? ? Kate Costello-Sullivan, Le Moyne College, New York, USA This book examines ideas of Irishness in the writing of Mary McCarthy, Maeve Brennan, Alice McDermott, Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart, and Emma Donoghue. Individual chapters engage in detail with questions central to the social or literary history of Irish women in North America and pay special attention to the following: discourses of Irish femininity in twentieth-century American and Canadian literature; mythologies of Irishness in an American and Canadian context; transatlantic literary exchanges and the influence of canonical Irish writers; and ideas of exile in the work of diasporic women writers. 606 $aNational characteristics, Irish, in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aWomen authors, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen authors, Canadian$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aNational characteristics, Irish, in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aWomen authors, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen authors, Canadian$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a822.914 700 $aMcWilliams$b Ellen$0610329 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484143003321 996 $aIrishness in North American women's writing$92571543 997 $aUNINA