Too smart to be sentimental
Subtitle: contemporary Irish American women writers
By: edited by Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney ; foreword by Caledonia Kearns.
Contributors: Ebest, Sally Barr.; McInerney, Kathleen H.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780268027735
Subjects: American literature -- Irish American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Irish Americans in literature; Irish Americans -- Ethnic identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mary Mccarthy : too smart to be sentimental / Sally Barr Ebest; title: Maureen Howard's "Landscapes of memory" / Patricia Keefe Durso; title: Moments of kindness, moments of recognition : the achievement of Maeve Brennan / John M. Menaghan; title: "Forget about being Irish" : family, transgression, and identity in the fiction of Elizabeth Cullinan / Kathleen McInerney; title: Alice McDermott's narrators / Beatrice Jacobson; title: Tess Gallagher : a network of sympathies and distant connections / Mary Ann Ryan; title: "I'm your man" : Irish American masculinity in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Susana Araújo; title: Hardly sentimental : the "bad girls" and lonely men of Mary McGarry Morris's fiction / Patricia Gott; title: Blurring boundaries : Eileen Myles and the Irish American identity / Kathleen Ann Kremins; title: The world of Mary Gordon : writing from the "other side" / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw; title: Jean McGarry : sojourners between dreams and realities / Amy Lee; title: Erin McGraw : expanding the tradition of Irish American women writers / Sally Barr Ebest.