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基本説明
Included are roughly 75 alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 35 expert contributors.
Full Description
Irish women writers have a large following, and their works are attracting large amounts of scholarly and critical attention. Through roughly 75 alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 35 expert contributors, this reference overviews the lives and works of Irish women writers active in a range of genres and periods. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and a list of works by and about the author. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Ireland has an especially lively literary tradition, and works by Irish writers have long been recognized as interesting and influential. While male writers have received the bulk of the critical attention given to Irish literature, contemporary women writers are among the most widely read Irish authors. This reference overviews the lives and works of Irish women writers active in a range of periods and genres.
Included are roughly 75 alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 35 expert contributors. Among the writers discussed are:
; Elizabeth Bowen
; Mary Dorcey
; Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory
; Anne Hartigan
; Norah Hoult
; Paula Meehan
; Iris Murdoch
; Edna O'Brien
; Katharine Tynan
; Sheila Wingfield
; And many more.
Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a review of the writer's critical reception, and a list of works by and about the writer. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Anderson, Linda
Bannister, Ivy; Beckett, Mary; Berkeley, Sara; Binchy, Maeve; Blackwood, Caroline; Boland, Eavan; Bourke, Angela; Bowen, Elizabeth; Boylan, Clare; Brennan, Elizabeth; Browne, Frances
Callaghan, Mary Rose; Cannon, Moya; Carr, Marina; Casey, Juanita; Colum, Mary (Catherine Gunning Maguire); Crottie, Julia; Cummins, Geraldine
Daly, Ita; Day, Suzanne; Deevy, Teresa; Devlin, Anne; Dillon, Eilis; Donoghue, Emma; Dorcey, Mary; Downing, Ellen Mary Patrick
Edgeworth, Maria; Edwards, Ruth Dudley; Enright, Anne
Frances, Mary E. (Mary Blundell)
Gallagher, Miriam; Grand, Sarah; Gregory, Lady (Isabella Augusta Persse)
Hartigan, Anne Le Marquand; Higgins, Rita Ann; Hoult, Norah
Johnston, Jennifer; Jenkinson, Biddy; Jones, Marie
Keane, Molly; Kelly, Eva; Kelly, Rita
Lavin, Mary; Lawless, Emily; Lingard, Joan
Madden, Deirdre; Martin, Joy; Mcguckian,Medbh; McNeill, Janet; Meehan, Paula; Mhac an tSaoi, Maire; Milligan, Alice; Mitchell, Susan L.; Morgan, Lady; Mulkerns, Val; Murdoch, Iris
Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean; Ni Dhomhnaill, Nuala; Ni Dhuibhne, Eilis; Ni Ghlinn, Aine; Ni Ghrada, Mairead
O'Brien, Edna; O'Brien, Kate; O'Donnell, Mary; O'Faolain, Julia; O'Faolain, Nuala; O'Malley, Mary
Reid, Christina
Sommerville and Ross; Strong, Eithne
Tighe, Mary; Tynan, Katharine
Wilde, Lady; Wingfield, Sheila
Selected Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
