| Description |
xiv, 254 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Irish American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Irish Americans in literature.
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Irish Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ebest, Sally Barr.
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McInerney, Kathleen H.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780268027735 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0268027730 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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