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Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien (Irish Studies in Literature & Culture)
Balzano, Wanda, Byron, Kristine, Farquharson, Danine, Gillespie, Michael Patrick, Hillan, Sophia, Pelan, Rebecca, Schrank, Bernice, Thompson
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Description for Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien (Irish Studies in Literature & Culture)
Paperback. Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, "The Country Girls", award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. This book situates her in Irish contexts that allow for an appraisal of her contribution to Irish women's literary tradition while attesting to the potency of writing against patriarchal conventions. Editor(s): Colletta, Lisa; O'Connor, Maureen. Series: Irish Studies in Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, ""The Country Girls"", award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. Praised for her lyrical prose and vivid female characters and attacked for her frank treatment of sexuality and alleged sensationalism, O'Brien and her work seem always to spawn controversy, including the past banning in Ireland of several of her works. O'Brien's attention to ""women's"" concerns such as sex, romance, marriage, and childbirth has often relegated her to critical neglect at best and, at worst, outright contempt. This essay collection promises to be a long overdue critical reevaluation and ... Read more
Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, ""The Country Girls"", award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. Praised for her lyrical prose and vivid female characters and attacked for her frank treatment of sexuality and alleged sensationalism, O'Brien and her work seem always to spawn controversy, including the past banning in Ireland of several of her works. O'Brien's attention to ""women's"" concerns such as sex, romance, marriage, and childbirth has often relegated her to critical neglect at best and, at worst, outright contempt. This essay collection promises to be a long overdue critical reevaluation and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Irish Studies in Literature & Culture
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299216344
SKU
V9780299216344
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About Balzano, Wanda, Byron, Kristine, Farquharson, Danine, Gillespie, Michael Patrick, Hillan, Sophia, Pelan, Rebecca, Schrank, Bernice, Thompson
Lisa Colletta is assistant professor of English at Babson College. She is the author of Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel and the editor of Kathleen and Christopher: Christopher Isherwood's Letters to His Mother. Maureen O'Connor teaches English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Reviews for Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien (Irish Studies in Literature & Culture)
Language is an extraordinary thing. It is more extraordinary than any nuclear weapon. - Edna O'Brien, in a 1995 interview with Salon.com ""Readers of Edna O'Brien's lyrical fiction can discover or revisit in Wild Colonial Girl the favorites - Kate and Baba, the mother and the Virgin Mary, Sister Imelda, ancient and modern Ireland, Breege and the Irish Revolutionary soldier ... Read more