The cracked lookingglass
Subtitle: highlights from the Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish Prose Writers
By: edited by Renée Fox and Greg Londe
Contributors: Brown, Terence, 1944-; Burke, Mary (Mary M.).; Cliff, Brian; Connolly, Claire; Connolly, Claire; Costello-Sullivan, Kathleen; Fogarty, Anne, 1958-; Keeley, Howard John, 1962-; Keeley, Howard John, 1962-; MacKay, Marina, 1975-; Muldoon, Paul; Muldoon, Paul; Reynolds, Paige; Reynolds, Paige; Rezek, Joseph; Scheible, Ellen; Shea, Thomas F., 1953-; Tóibín, Colm, 1955-; Tóibín, Colm, 1955-; Tóibín, Colm, 1955-; Tóibín, Colm, 1955-; Tóibín, Colm, 1955-; Whelan, Kevin, 1958-; White, Siân Elin; Wills, Clair; Wong, Shirley Lau; Wood, Michael, 1936-; Woolmer, J. Howard, writer of foreword; Kelleher, Margaret, writer of introduction; Argetsinger, Mark, book designer; Princeton University. Library
Publisher: Princeton University Library
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780878110551
Subjects: English prose literature; Irish authors; Irish prose literature; Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish Prose
Other titles: Cracked looking glass
Notes: Title in black and red, with color title vignette of Laurence Sterne's "tolerable straight line" from The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (London, 1760-1767).

Contributors: Terence Brown, Mary Burke, Brian Cliff, Claire Connolly, Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, Anne Fogarty, Renée Fox, Howard Keeley, Margaret Kelleher, Greg Londe, Marina MacKay, Paul Muldoon, Paige Reynolds, Joseph Rezek, Ellen Scheible, Tom Shea, Colm Tóibín, Kevin Whelan, Siân White, Clair Wills, Shirley Lau Wong, Michael Wood.

"Printed by Capital Offset Company, Concord, New Hampshire; bound by New Hampshire Bindery, Concord, New Hampshire; designed and composed by Mark Argetsinger, Rochester, New York"--Colophon.

"An exhibition in Firestone Library, Princeton University, 28 January - 10 July 2011"--Dust-jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205).
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- J. Howard Woolmer; title: Introduction  -- Margaret Kelleher -- Transatlantic connections in the early nineteenth century -- Joseph Rezek; title: Manuscript letter from Maria Edgeworth --; title: The Irish romantic novel  -- Claire Connolly; title: Representing Ireland : the national tale  -- Renée Fox; title: Manuscript letter from Mrs. S.C. Hall --; title: Salute of the Earth : Carleton, Kiely, McLaverty  -- Paul Muldoon; title: Charles Joseph Kickham  -- Howard Keeley; title: The Irish Gothic  -- Renée Fox; title: Manuscript letter from Charles Robert Maturin --; title: Caroline Blackwood  -- Greg Londe; title: Merrion Square  -- Renée Fox; title: Telling Irish fairy tales  -- Renée Fox; title: Manuscript letter from Samuel Lover --; title: Irish children's books  -- Renée Fox; title: George A. Birmingham  -- Howard Keeley; title: The Blasket Island writers  -- Tom Shea; title: Reinventions of the Gaelic : a primer  -- Greg Londe; title: A fulcrum for fun : Seosamh Mac Grianna  -- Paul Muldoon; title: Walter Starkie  -- Mary Burke; title: Comparing Colonies : Ireland and Africa  -- Greg Londe; title: Manuscript letter from James Stephens -- 1916 : a year in prose  -- Greg Londe; title: Liam O' Flaherty  -- Greg Londe; title: On Somerville and Ross's "The whiteboys" Manuscript --; title: How to say yes : Quiet man and popular fictions  -- Greg Londe; title: Kate O'Brien  -- Paige Reynolds; title: Manuscript letter from Kate O'Brien --; title: Irish writing during World War II  -- Clair Wills; title: Manuscript letter from Francis Stuart --; title: Irish pulp fiction  -- Greg Londe; title: Elizabeth Bowen  -- Siân White; title: Manuscript letter from Elizabeth Bowen --; title: The midcentury short story  -- Colm Tóibín; title: Flann O'Brien gets away  -- Greg Londe; title: O'Faoláin and The bell  -- Greg Londe; title: Brian Moore  -- Terence Brown; title: From across the Irish Sea  -- Colm Tóibín; title: Iris Murdoch's working notebooks  -- Greg Londe; title: J.G. Farrell  -- Marina MacKay; title: Northern Irish fiction  -- Renée Fox; title: Edna O'Brien, Carlo Gébler  -- Anne Fogarty; title: Rethinking endings : Irish women writers  -- Renée Fox; title: The lens of the sentence  -- Colm Tóibín; title: John McGahern  -- Kevin Whelan; title: John Banville  -- Michael Wood; title: Raven Arts Press : the new dissident Dubliners  -- Greg Londe; title: Dermot Healy and Sebastian Barry  -- Colm Tóibín; title: The art of the Irish essay  -- Shirley Lau Wong and Greg Londe; title: Colm Tóibín  -- Kathleen Costello-Sullivan; title: The art of the new Irish memoir  -- Colm Tóibín; title: Transatlantic commuters in the twentieth century  -- Paige Reynolds; title: Typescript letter from Colum McCann --; title: The bog Gothic  -- Ellen Scheible; title: Emma Donoghue  -- Brian Cliff; title: Queer novelists  -- Renée Fox; title: Anne Enright -- Claire Connolly.