{"title":"Key Irish Women Writers","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover Ireland's most compelling female voices. From Maeve Binchy's heartwarming tales to Edna O'Brien's groundbreaking stories, explore novels that capture the Irish experience with wit and emotional depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"elizabeth-bowen-book-heather-ingman-9781913087371","title":"Elizabeth Bowen","description":"This study provides a concise, up to date critical account of Elizabeth Bowen's work, setting it in the turbulent historical, political and social contexts in which she lived and wrote. \/ Heather Ingman discusses Bowen's ten novels as well as her numerous short stories, her essays, reviews, interviews and broadcasts in order to give readers an idea of the range and diversity of her work. Bowen is recognised as one of the foremost short story writers of the twentieth century. \/ Recent scholarship has reshaped the way we view Bowen - taking her out of the previously confining categories of Big House novelist, middlebrow woman's novelist, heir to Bloomsbury etc., in order to portray the sheer diversity and unnerving perspicacity of her work. \/ The focus of this study is on her Irish background as a guiding thread through interpretation of her work. It draws on recent research and linking these to the complexities of her Anglo-Irish identity. Feminist theories of female identity, writing and motherhood also feature. \/ The consolidation of Bowen's reputation as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century has been achieved by scholars working in different fields and employing a variety of theoretical models. This study aims to capture the diversity of possible approaches to reading Bowen while also highlighting current gaps in our knowledge. Though the richness and complexity of Bowen's fiction make impossible any single ideological reading of her work, the Irish resonances in her work are pursued throughout the chapters. \/ Bowen's novels included The Hotel (1927), The Last September (1929), Friends and Relations (1931), To the North (1932), The House in Paris (1935), The Death of the Heart (1938), The Heat of the Day (1949) A World of Love (1955), The Little Girls (1964) and her final novel, Eva Trout (1969). Her historical work included Bowen's Court (1942) and Seven Winters (1942). \/ Elizabeth Bowen is now recognised as one of the foremost writers of fiction of the twentieth century, but that has not always been the case. Following on her 1980s and 1990s recuperation by scholars in the fields of Irish Studies and feminist theory, a considerable number of monographs, chapters and articles analysing her work from a variety of theoretical and political viewpoints has appeared. The time is now ripe for an accessible, up to date critical guide through these differing readings, taking into account recently published volumes of her essays, reviews, broadcasts, interviews and correspondence. As well as appealing to the general reader and featuring on school syllabuses, Bowen's work is widely taught in Irish, American and English universities in a number of different contexts, including Irish writing, Big House fiction, modernism, women's writing, war writing and postmodernism, so the study will meet the wants of a large readership. \/ Contents: Methodology. Organization. Timeline: key biographical and publication dates. Introduction: Reading Elizabeth Bowen. Ch.1: The Female Bildungsroman. Ch.2: Interwar Femininity. Ch.3: Widening the Scene. Ch.4: The Short Stories. Ch.5: War Writing. Ch.6: Time and Trauma. 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Clíona Ó Gallchoir provides a lucid and accessible introduction to each area of Edgeworth's work - and offers students in particular an overview of her work that encompasses its full range and incorporates the insights of contemporary criticism. \/ Particular focus is given to her Irish fiction, her examination of women's lives and roles, and her work in education and children's literature. An introductory chapter outlines the key historical and cultural contexts as well as establishing the central intellectual questions with which Edgeworth engaged, and which offer threads of continuity in a diverse body of work. \/ This work draws on recent research that has highlighted some of the lesser-known works, while also presenting discussions of the major works in the light of the most recent criticism. \/ Maria Edgeworth (1767-849) was born in England but moved with her father to the family estate at Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford in 1782. Her early writings led to The Parent's Assistant (1796), a series of didactic stories for children, and Practical Education (2 vols. 1798), influenced by the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. A further series of her works, some of them collaborative, followed. In 1800 Maria famously published Castle Rackrent, the earliest regional novel in English. This influenced Sir Walter Scott, which he praised in his preface to Waverley (1814). A number of other major works followed. \/ The year 2018 was the 250th anniversary of her birth, and witnessed a range of events that give evidence of ever-increasing scholarly and critical interest in her work. The past 20 years has seen a new 12-volume scholarly edition, numerous paperback editions, several monographs devoted in whole or in part to her work, 2 essay collections, and a host of journal articles. Her work is included on courses on Irish literature, women's writing, and romantic-period literature, including drama, and it is studied from many different perspectives (e.g. women and enlightenment, the development of the novel, literature and colonialism, children's literature). \/ The content is ordered chronologically. A conclusion draws together the central discursive strands and offers an assessment of Edgeworth's achievement and reputation. Contents: Biographical Timeline. \/ 1. Introduction: Themes and Contexts. \/ 2. Education, 1795-1804 (Practical Education, Parent's Assistant, Early Lessons, Moral Tales, Harry and Lucy). \/ 3. Ireland, 1782-1802 (The Double Disguise, Castle Rackrent, An Essay on Irish Bulls). \/ 4. Women, 1795-1806: (Letters for Literary Ladies, Belinda, Leonora). \/ 5. Novelist of the Union: Ennui, The Absentee and Ormond. \/ 6. Challenging English Identity: Harrington, Patronage. \/ 7. Later Work: Helen and later fiction for children. \/ Conclusion. 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