Irish Women's Writing, 1878-1922 Advancing the Cause of Liberty

by Pilz, Anna; Standlee, Whitney

• ISBN13: 9781526115225
• ISBN10: 1526115220
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2017-01-19
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Table of Contents

Foreword by Lia Mills
Introduction - Anna Pilz and Whitney Standlee
1. Works, righteousness, philanthropy and the market in the novels of Charlotte Riddell - Patrick Maume
2. 'She's nothin' but a shadda': the politics of marriage in late Mulholland - James H. Murphy
3. Nature, education, and liberty in The Book of Gilly by Emily Lawless - Heidi Hansson
4. Girls with 'go': female homosociality in L. T. Meade's schoolgirl novels - Whitney Standlee
5. 'Breaking away': Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer - Jane Mahony and Eve Patten
6. Women, ambition and the city, 1890-1910 - Ciaran O'Neill and Mai Yatani
7. 'An Irish problem': bilingual manoeuvres in the work of Somerville and Ross - Margaret Kelleher
8. 'A bad master': religion, Jacobitism and the politics of representation in Lady Gregory's The White Cockade - Anna Pilz
9. 'Old wine in new bottles'? Katharine Tynan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald and George Wyndham - Kieron Winterson
10. 'The blind side of the heart': Protestants, politics and patriarchy in the novels of F. E. Crichton - Naomi Doak
11. 'The red sunrise': gender, violence and nation in Ella Young's vision of a New Ireland - Aurelia Annat
12. Libert?, ?galit?, sororit?: the poetics of suffrage in the work of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz - Lauren Arrington
Index