Private Histories
Subtitle: The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900-1935
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: October 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780268027728
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; American - General; United States - 20th Century; 20th century; American literature; History and criticism; Intellectual life; Irish American authors; Irish Americans
First sentence: IN MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD, MARY MCCARTHY reflected upon her life as a typical Irish-American Catholic: [W]e would have been a united Catholic family, rather middle class and wholesome.