Irish Women Writers

Elke D’hoker is a lecturer at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Her fields of research include British and Irish fiction, narrative theory and gender studies.Raphaël Ingelbien is a senior lecturer at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His current research focuses on the European contexts of nineteenth-century Irish writing.Hedwig Schwall is a senior lecturer at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Her research interests include contemporary Irish literature and psychoanalytic theory.

• Contents: Elke D’hoker/Raphaël Ingelbien/Hedwig Schwall: Introduction – Anne Fogarty: ‘I was a Voice’: Orality and Silence in the Poetry of Eavan Boland – Margaret Mills Harper: ‘The Real Thing’: Body Parts and the Zero Institution in Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry – Lucy Collins: Joyful Mysteries: Language and Spirituality in Medbh McGuckian’s Recent Poetry – Niamh Hehir: ‘I have grown inside words/Into a state of unbornness’: Evocations of a Pre-linguistic Space of Meaning in Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry – Mária Kurdi: Narrating Across Borders: From Gendered Experience of Trauma to Subject Transformation in Monologues by Irish Women Playwrights – Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin: ‘The seeds beneath the snow’: Resignation and Resistance in Teresa Deevy’s Wife to James Whelan – Faith Binckes/Kathryn Laing: A Vagabond’s Scrutiny: Hannah Lynch in Europe – Maureen O’Connor: ‘I’m meat for no butcher!’: The Female and the Species in Irish Women’s Writing – Eve Eisenberg: ‘And then the sausages were ordered’: Jewishness, Irishness and Othering in Castle Rackrent – Christina Morin: Undermining Morality? National Destabilisation in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne ou L’Italie – Catherine Smith: ‘Words! Words! Words!’: Interrogations of Language and History in Emily Lawless’s With Essex in Ireland – Kathryn Johnson: ‘Phantasmagoric Hinterlands’: Adolescence and Anglo-Ireland in Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris and The Death of the Heart – Tina O’Toole: Unregenerate Spirits: The Counter-Cultural Experiments of George Egerton and Elizabeth Bowen – Sylvie Mikowski: Deirdre Madden’s Novels: Searching for Authentic Woman – Adriana Bebiano: ‘Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know’: The Stories of Chicago May and Eliza Lynch – Giovanna Tallone: ‘Once Upon a Time’: Fabulists and Storytellers in Clare Boylan’s Fiction – Ann Owens Weekes: Towards Her Own History: A Century of Irish Women’s Fiction.

«[A] major strength of the book is that it successfully balances the recovery of neglected writers with the innovative application of new critical possibilities for reading more established authors, resulting in an excellent body of original scholarship and an exciting contribution to the study of Irish women’s writing.» (Ellen McWilliams, Irish Studies Review 21, 2013/1)