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Author Pelan, Rebecca, 1954-

Title Two Irelands : literary feminisms north and south / Rebecca Pelan.

Imprint Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  820.99287 P361t 2005    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxxiv, 203 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Irish studies
Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-190) and index.
Contents Introduction: "a proper object of study": contemporary women's writing -- Undoing that "other" conquest: women's writing from the Republic of Ireland -- The unfinished revolution: women's writing from Northern Ireland -- Surveying the new minefield.
Summary Rebecca Pelan analyzes religion, region, class, and national and ethnic identity as crucial contexts in shaping feminist consciousness in the two Irelands, and compares the divergence of feminist perspectives to be found North and South of the border.
Subject English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
Feminism and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Northern Ireland -- Intellectual life.
Feminism and literature -- Northern Ireland.
Women and literature -- Northern Ireland.
Women -- Ireland -- Intellectual life.
Northern Ireland -- In literature.
Ireland -- In literature.
Feminism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
ISBN 081563059X (alk. paper)
9780815630593 (alk. paper)

 
    
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