Protestant Women Novelists & Irish Society 1879-1922 (Lund Studies in English)
Publisher: Lund University Press
Published: December 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9789197402354
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women's studies; Ireland; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; 19th century; 20th century; Protestantism in literature; Social conditions; Women novelists, Irish
Description: "This study deals with an area of Anglo-Irish literature neglected by present-day researchers: novels written by Protestant women from 1879 to 1922, at a time when the position of the previously dominant Protestant Anglo-Irish was transformed by the strikingly different nation which was developing around them. The outline of the study reflects the areas of contention: the four chapters - 'Land and Politics', 'Religion', 'Race', 'The New Irish and the Ould Stock' - deal with issues that were topical at the time." "The novels' plots and characters were generally invented; but behind the story they present, there is another narrative which keeps interfering with the reading. This second narrative is, of course, 'history'. Immensely popular in their day, the novels make interesting observations on contemporary events and deserve to be acknowledged for the important contribution they make to the history of this eventful period."--BOOK JACKET.