Irish New Woman

Zusatztext 'O'Toole has admirably accomplished her stated goal of 'complicat[ing] and enrich[ing] conventional narratives of literary history as well as the discourses of gender! sexual and national identities.'' Maureen O'Connor! Irish Literary Supplement Informationen zum Autor Tina O'Toole is Lecturer in English in the School of Language, Literature, Culture and Communication at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Klappentext The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siècle . This is the first study which foregrounds the Irish and New Woman contexts, effecting a paradigm shift in the critical reception of fin de siècle writers and their work. Zusammenfassung The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siècle . This is the first study which foregrounds the Irish and New Woman contexts, effecting a paradigm shift in the critical reception of fin de siècle writers and their work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: The Irish New Woman 1. Feminism and Famine 2. Empire Girls 3. The New Woman and the Land War 4. The 'New' Mother Ireland 5. The New Woman and the Boy 6. The Transnational New Woman Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgements Introduction: The Irish New Woman 1. Feminism and Famine 2. Empire Girls 3. The New Woman and the Land War 4. The 'New' Mother Ireland 5. The New Woman and the Boy 6. The Transnational New Woman Conclusion Bibliography Index

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'O'Toole has admirably accomplished her stated goal of 'complicat[ing] and enrich[ing] conventional narratives of literary history as well as the discourses of gender, sexual and national identities.'' Maureen O'Connor, Irish Literary Supplement

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• Authors: &apos, O&apos, T. O'Toole, Tina O'Toole, Tina O''toole, Tina toole
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2013
• EAN: 9780230313910
• ISBN: 978-0-230-31391-0
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy