Maeve Brennan - A Place in the Mind

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.

Summary

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