RDS Library & Archives

Women and exile in contemporary Irish fiction /

McWilliams, Ellen,

Women and exile in contemporary Irish fiction / Ellen McWilliams. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - xi, 243 p. : 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction examines how contemporary Irish authors have taken up the history of the Irish woman migrant. It situates these writers' work in relation to larger discourses of exile in the Irish literary tradition and examines how they engage with the complex history of Irish emigration. (Copac)

9780230285767 : (hbk) £50.00


English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Exiles in literature.
National characteristics, Irish, in literature.

823.90093552

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