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HANSSON:EMILY LAWLESS H/B (R)
Heidi Hansson
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Description for HANSSON:EMILY LAWLESS H/B (R)
Hardcover. Emily Lawless is one of the most important of Ireland's forgotten women writers. From a Protestant ascendancy background, she combined nationalist feelings with unionist sympathies. This book deals with Emily Lawless. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 540.
This is the first comprehensive study of the writing of Emily Lawless (1845-1913) and includes biographical information, letters and contemporary reception as well as analyses based on present-day theoretical approaches, especially feminist criticism and cultural geography. The study begins with a presentation of Lawless's family background, her social circle and a description of her literary career, including how her works have been received up until the present. Her early fiction, novels and stories set outside Ireland are then explored and successive chapters deal with her landscape writing and her novels about the west of Ireland, her negotiations with the voice ... Read more
This is the first comprehensive study of the writing of Emily Lawless (1845-1913) and includes biographical information, letters and contemporary reception as well as analyses based on present-day theoretical approaches, especially feminist criticism and cultural geography. The study begins with a presentation of Lawless's family background, her social circle and a description of her literary career, including how her works have been received up until the present. Her early fiction, novels and stories set outside Ireland are then explored and successive chapters deal with her landscape writing and her novels about the west of Ireland, her negotiations with the voice ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859184134
SKU
V9781859184134
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About Heidi Hansson
Heidi Hansson is an Associate Professor of English Literature, Umea University, Sweden, and is author of Romance Revived: Postmodern Romances and the Tradition (Uppsala, 1998).
Reviews for HANSSON:EMILY LAWLESS H/B (R)
With this study of the work of the neglected Emily Lawless, Hansson (Umea Univ., Sweden; Romance Revived: Postmodern Romances and the Tradition, 1998) opens up a significant period for women's writing in Ireland. Interspace is Lawless's own term, and Hansson uses it to describe this Anglo-Irish Protestant who determined to avoid stock responses to the nationalist-unionist tensions of ... Read more