Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland
Author:   Ellen Scheible (Bridgewater State University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350429109


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   09 January 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Ellen Scheible (Bridgewater State University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781350429109


ISBN 10:   1350429104
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   09 January 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Body Politics in the (Home) Nation Chapter 1: Mirroring and the Female Body in James Joyce Chapter 2: The Danger of the Domestic Body: Bridget Cleary, Big House Modernism, and Tana French Chapter 3: Reflection, Anxiety, and the Feminized Body: The Contemporary Irish Gothic Chapter 4: Bildung and the Non-reproductive Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing Chapter 5: “Boneless, Grotesque”: Institutionalized Masculinity and Female Containment in Tana French’s The Witch Elm Chapter 6: Normal People, Then and Now: James Joyce and Sally Rooney Conclusion Index

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This is a timely and valuable book. The texts under discussion are well-chosen, the prose is admirably lucid and the analysis is illuminating. -- Ailbhe Darcy, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Cardiff University, UK


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Ellen Scheible is Professor of English and coordinator of Irish Studies at Bridgewater State University, USA.

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