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Maeve Brennan - A Place in the Mind

English · Hardback

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This book offers a critical overview of the effects of space, physical and conceptual, in the works of Irish American author Maeve Brennan. Single and childfree, Brennan's iconoclastic attitudes to home, family, and womanhood place her work within the canon of radical Irish fiction.


List of contents










Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Urban Space
2. Diasporic Space
3. Manic Space
4. Feminine Space
5. Queer Space
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Abbreviations


About the author










Edward O'Rourke completed his PhD in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published on the topics of women in urban space, femme theory, and twentieth-century Irish women's writing. O'Rourke's research interests include postcolonial literature and the representation of mania in the diasporic literature of women writers. He currently teaches at Mount Sackville in Dublin.


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This book offers a critical overview of the effects of space, physical and conceptual, in the works of Irish American author Maeve Brennan. Single and childfree, Brennan’s iconoclastic attitudes to home, family, and womanhood place her work within the canon of radical Irish fiction.

Product details

Authors Edward O’Rourke
Publisher Taylor and Francis
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.10.2024
 
EAN 9781032556123
ISBN 978-1-032-55612-3
No. of pages 222
Weight 453 g
Illustrations schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
Series Routledge Research in Women's Literature
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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