Research Catalog

Title

• The Irish voice in America : 250 years of Irish-American fiction / Charles Fanning.

Author

Fanning, Charles

Publication

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2000.

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Holdings

Details

Description

x, 448 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Irish Voice in America surveys the fiction written by the Irish in America over the past two hundred and fifty years. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• American fiction > History and criticism
• Ireland > In literature
• Irish Americans > Intellectual life
• Irish Americans in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the two cycles of Irish-American fiction -- Backgrounds and a habit of satire -- The profession of novelist: James McHenry and Charles Cannon -- The famine generation: practical fiction for immigrants -- Mrs. Sadlier and Father Quigley -- Respectability and realism: ambivalent fictions -- Mr. Egan and Mr. Dooley -- A generation lost -- James T. Farrell and Irish-American fiction -- Regional realists of the Thirties and Forties -- "These traits endure" : the Irish voice in recent American fiction -- Liberating doubleness in the Nineties.

ISBN

0813109701 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99012648^

OCLC

40683346

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library