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Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing: Uneasy Moderns

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing: Uneasy Moderns - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Naoise MurphyPublish date:12/31/2025Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399547468ISBN-10:1399547461UPC:9781399547468Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Feminist, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Women AuthorsSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.0803Product ID:SC0D520D46
Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers - Dorothy Macardle, Kate O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane - this book unsettles the conventional narratives of modern Irish culture. Despite attempts to impose a linear narrative of progress, feel-good accounts are clearly inadequate to the realities of contemporary Ireland. Guided by a queer refusal to move on from bad feelings, Naoise Murphy disrupts common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Lingering with unease and discomfort in the work of mid-twentieth-century women writers and the spaces they occupied, this book pays close attention to inadmissible feelings of loss, anxiety, hauntedness and melancholia. By embracing discomfort, it moves towards a less idealising form of queer studies that is more responsive to the complexity of queer history, and offers a new story of Irish culture in the twentieth century.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399547468ISBN-10:1399547461UPC:9781399547468Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Feminist, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Women AuthorsSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.0803Product ID:SC0D520D46
Murphy, Naoise: - Naoise Murphy is a researcher specialising in twentieth-century literature and queer studies and has taught at the University of Cambridge, Maynooth University and the University of Oxford.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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