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Too smart to be sentimental : contemporary Irish American women writers

Title
Too smart to be sentimental : contemporary Irish American women writers / edited by Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney ; foreword by Caledonia Kearns.
Publication
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Ebest, Sally Barr.
  • McInerney, Kathleen H.
Description
xiv, 254 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Irish Americans in literature
  • Irish Americans > Ethnic identity
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Caledonia Kearns -- Introduction: Writing Green Thoughts / Sally Barr Ebest -- Women in Irish American Society -- Ch. 1. Mary McCarthy: Too Smart to Be Sentimental / Sally Barr Ebest -- Ch. 2. Maureen Howard's "Landscapes of Memory" / Patricia Keefe Durso -- Ch. 3. Moments of Kindness, Moments of Recognition: The Achievement of Maeve Brennan / John M. Menaghan -- Religion and Ethics -- Ch. 4. "Forget about Being Irish": Family, Transgression, and Identity in the Fiction of Elizabeth Cullinan / Kathleen McInerney -- Ch. 5. Alice McDermott's Narrators / Beatrice Jacobson -- Oral Traditions -- Ch. 6. Tess Gallagher: A Network of Sympathies and Distant Connections / Mary Ann Ryan -- Ch. 7. "I'm Your Man": Irish American Masculinity in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Susana Araujo -- Sexuality -- Ch. 8. Hardly Sentimental: The "Bad Girls" and Lonely Men of Mary McGarry Morris's Fiction / Patricia Gott -- Ch. 9. Blurring Boundaries: Eileen Myles and the Irish American Identity / Kathleen Ann Kremins -- Feminism, Culture, and Critioue -- Ch. 10. The World of Mary Gordon: Writing from the "Other Side" / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw -- Ch. 11. Jean McGarry: Sojourners Between Dreams and Realities / Amy Lee -- Ch. 12. Erin McGraw: Expanding the Tradition of Irish American Women Writers / Sally Barr Ebest.
ISBN
  • 9780268027735 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0268027730 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2007038704
  • 40015165319
OCLC
  • ocn173218797
  • 173218797
  • SCSB-5395512
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Columbia University Libraries