LEADER 03377nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910825309003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-268-07862-9 035 $a(CKB)2560000000050951 035 $a(EBL)3440969 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487966 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11360582 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487966 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10445898 035 $a(PQKB)10937962 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3440969 035 $a(OCoLC)694144455 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9949 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3440969 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10423293 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000050951 100 $a20070918d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aToo smart to be sentimental $econtemporary Irish American women writers /$fedited by Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney ; foreword by Caledonia Kearns 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNotre Dame, Ind. $cUniversity of Notre Dame Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-268-02773-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMary 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. 330 $aThrough a series of critical and biographical essays, this work offers a feminist literary history of twentieth-century Irish America. 606 $aAmerican literature$xIrish American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIrish Americans in literature 606 $aIrish Americans$xEthnic identity 615 0$aAmerican literature$xIrish American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIrish Americans in literature. 615 0$aIrish Americans$xEthnic identity. 676 $a810.9/9287 701 $aEbest$b Sally Barr$01671199 701 $aMcInerney$b Kathleen H$01671200 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825309003321 996 $aToo smart to be sentimental$94033576 997 $aUNINA