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British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement
Six Literary Voices of Their Times
Taschenbuch von Jill Franks
Sprache: Englisch

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This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective nations. In the first wave, nationalist and militant ideologies competed with the suffrage fight in Ireland. Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September illustrates the melancholy of gender performance and confusion of ethnic identity in the dying Anglo-Irish Ascendancy class. In England, suffrage ideologies clashed with socialism and patriotism. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway contains a political unconscious that links its characters across class and gender.
In the second wave, heterosexual romantic relationships come under scrutiny. Edna O'Brien's Country Girls trilogy reveals ways in which Irish Catholic ideologies abject femaleness; her characters internalize this abjection to the point of self-destruction. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook pits the protagonist's aspirations to write novels against the Communist Party's prohibitions on bourgeois values.
In the third wave, Irish writers express the frustrations of their cultural identity. Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You takes her protagonist back to Ireland to heal her psychic wounds. In England, Thatcherism had created a materialistic culture that eroded many feminists' socialist values. Fay Weldon's Big Woman satirizes the demise of second-wave idealism, asking where feminism can go from here.
This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective nations. In the first wave, nationalist and militant ideologies competed with the suffrage fight in Ireland. Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September illustrates the melancholy of gender performance and confusion of ethnic identity in the dying Anglo-Irish Ascendancy class. In England, suffrage ideologies clashed with socialism and patriotism. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway contains a political unconscious that links its characters across class and gender.
In the second wave, heterosexual romantic relationships come under scrutiny. Edna O'Brien's Country Girls trilogy reveals ways in which Irish Catholic ideologies abject femaleness; her characters internalize this abjection to the point of self-destruction. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook pits the protagonist's aspirations to write novels against the Communist Party's prohibitions on bourgeois values.
In the third wave, Irish writers express the frustrations of their cultural identity. Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You takes her protagonist back to Ireland to heal her psychic wounds. In England, Thatcherism had created a materialistic culture that eroded many feminists' socialist values. Fay Weldon's Big Woman satirizes the demise of second-wave idealism, asking where feminism can go from here.
Über den Autor
Jill Franks teaches English literature and film at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction.¿Why Voices, Gynocritics and Biography Matter

One.¿"Cherish all the children of the nation equally": The Irish Women's Movement

Two.¿"Deeds, Not Words": The British Women's Movement

Three.¿The 1920s: Androgyny and Gender Performance in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September

Four.¿The 1960s: Hegemonies and the Abject in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy

Five.¿Turn of the 21st Century: Individualist and Communal Values in Fay Weldon's Big Women and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You

Conclusion.¿Comparative Analysis

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780786474080
ISBN-10: 0786474084
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Franks, Jill
Hersteller: McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Jill Franks
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.02.2013
Gewicht: 0,383 kg
Artikel-ID: 127861690
Über den Autor
Jill Franks teaches English literature and film at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction.¿Why Voices, Gynocritics and Biography Matter

One.¿"Cherish all the children of the nation equally": The Irish Women's Movement

Two.¿"Deeds, Not Words": The British Women's Movement

Three.¿The 1920s: Androgyny and Gender Performance in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September

Four.¿The 1960s: Hegemonies and the Abject in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy

Five.¿Turn of the 21st Century: Individualist and Communal Values in Fay Weldon's Big Women and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You

Conclusion.¿Comparative Analysis

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780786474080
ISBN-10: 0786474084
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Franks, Jill
Hersteller: McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Jill Franks
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.02.2013
Gewicht: 0,383 kg
Artikel-ID: 127861690
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