Border Crossings

by Kirkpatrick, Kathryn J.

• ISBN13: 9780817309961
• ISBN10: 0817309969
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

Writing in the shadows of Joyce and Yeats, Irish women have long contributed to the ongoing formation of Irish identities. Border Crossings secures for a largely overlooked body of writing its place in the Irish literary canon.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Kathryn Kirkpatrick
Acts of Union: Family Violence and National Courtship in Maria Edgeworth's The Absentee and Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl	13	(25)
Julia Anne Miller
Forging a Tradition: Emily Lawless and the Irish Literary Canon	38	(20)
James M. Cahalan
``Things Which Seem to You Unfeminine'': Gender and Nationalism in the Fiction of Some Upper Middle Class Catholic Women Novelists, 1880-1910	58	(21)
James H. Murphy
Irish Poetry and the Modernist Canon: A Reappraisal of Katharine Tynan	79	(21)
Donna L. Potts
``A Woman of the House'': Gender and Nationalism in the Writings of Augusta Gregory	100	(23)
Anne Fogarty
A Trackless Road: Irish Nationalisms and Lesbian Writing	123	(34)
Ann Owens Weeks
Women Are Trousers	157	(33)
Medbh McGukian
Revisionist Cartography: The Politics of Place in Boland and Heaney	190	(14)
Katie Conboy
Reproducing the Nation: Nationalism, Reproduction, and Paternalism in Anne Devlin's Ourselves Alone	204	(23)
Ann Rea
``Instead I Said I Am a Home Baker'': Nationalist Ideology and Materialist Politics in Mary Beckett's Give Them Stones	227	(23)
Megan Sullivan
Public Spaces, Private Lives: Irish Identity and Female Selfhood in the Novels of Jennifer Johnston	250	(19)
Racheal Sealy Lynch
The Attic LIPs: Feminist Pamphleteering for the New Ireland	269	(30)
Katherine Martin Gray
Contributors	299	(4)
Index	303