The comic tradition in Irish women writers /
O'Connor, Theresa.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What foremothers? / Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill -- The voices of Maria Edgeworth's comedy / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- Hyacinth and the wise man : Lady Gregory's comic enterprise / Mary Lowe-Evans -- "Humor with a Gender" : Somerville and Ross and The Irish R.M. / James M. Cahalan -- The crumbling fortress : Molly Keane's comedies of Anglo-Irish manners / Rachael Jane Lynch -- Iris Murdoch's moral comedy / Flora Alexander -- (S)he was too scrupulous always : Edna O'Brien and the comic tradition / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- History, gender, and the post-colonial condition : Julia O'Faolain's comic rewriting of Finnegans Wake / Theresa O'Connor -- Lashings of the mother tongue : Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's anarchic laughter / Mary O'Connor -- Joyce and Boylan's Black Baby : "swiftly and silently" / Jean-Louis Giovannangeli.
BNA
English literature
Humorous stories, English
English wit and humor
English literature
Women and literature
Comic, The, in literature.