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Heather Ingman
This book examines the way in which Machiavelli led French poets and dramatists of the sixteenth century towards a new awareness of the complexity of political behaviour. It tells the…
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The focus of this study is on Bowen’s Irish background as a guiding thread through the interpretation of her work.
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The focus of this study is Bowen’s Irish background as a guiding thread through this interpretation of her work.
This book applies insights from feminist theology to highlight spiritual themes in twentieth-century fiction by women writers. The author traces the way women writers of the twentieth century have not…
The topic of Irish women’s writing is still a neglected one, with women’s novels too often sidelined, despite the international recognition gained by prize-winning novels written by such authors as…
Irish Women’s Fiction examines women’s novels up to and following the establishment of the Irish state, the period of the Second World War, the Second Wave feminism of the 1970s…
This anthology of women’s writing on the mother-daughter relationship covers the whole of the twentieth century and includes writing from many different cultures - black American, Jewish, West Indian, Irish…
During much of the twentieth-century, Irish women’s position was on the boundaries of national life. This study demonstrates that their marginalization was to women’s, and indeed the nation’s, advantage as…
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Age is a missing category in Irish literary criticism and this book is the first to explore a range of familiar and not so familiar Irish texts through a gerontological…
This revelatory new work sets the life of one of the foremost writers of fiction in the 20th-century in its several contexts including her busy life in literary London, and…
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Heather Ingman (Trinity College, Dublin)
This text traces the development of the modern short story in Ireland from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present day. Each chapter concludes with a detailed analysis…
This book is aimed at students, researchers, and general readers who are interested in Irish literature and writing by women. It offers a comprehensive account of writing by women in…
Professor Heather Ingman
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. This book applies insights from feminist theology to highlight spiritual themes in twentieth-century fiction by women writers. The author traces the way…
