TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weekes,Ann Owens
TI  - Irish Women Writers: An Uncharted Tradition
SN  - 9780813150550
AV  - PR8733 .I757 1990
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Irish authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Women
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Seeking a Tradition: Irish Women's Fiction; 2. Maria Edgeworth: Domestic Saga; 3. Somerville and Ross: Ignoble Tragedy; 4. Elizabeth Bowen: Out of Eden; 5. Kate O'Brien: Family in the New Nation; 6. Mary Lavin: Textual Gardens; 7. Molly Keane: Bildungsromane Quenelles; 8. Julia O'Faolain: The Imaginative Crucible; Illustrations; 9. Jennifer Johnston: From Gortnaree to Knappogue; 10. Irish Women Writers: The Experience of the Mass; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; 2; b
N2  - From the legendary poet Oisin to modernist masters like James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett, Ireland's literary tradition has made its mark on the Western canon. Despite its proud tradition, the student who searches the shelves for works on Irish women's fiction is liabel to feel much as Virginia Woolf did when she searched the British Museum for work on women by women. Critic Nuala O'Faolain, when confronted with this disparity, suggested that ""modern Irish literature is dominated by men so brilliant in their misanthropy... [that] the self-respect of Irish women is radicall
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