Irishness in North American Women's Writing

This book examines ideas of Irishness in the writing of Mary McCarthy, MaeveBrennan, Alice McDermott, Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart, and Emma Donoghue.Individual chapters engage in detail with questions central to the social or literaryhistory of Irish women in North America and pay special attention to the following:discourses of Irish femininity in twentieth-century American and Canadianliterature; mythologies of Irishness in an American and Canadian context;transatlantic literary exchanges and the influence of canonical Irish writers; andideas of exile in the work of diasporic women writers.