Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story
This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some
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Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story
Elke D’hoker
Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story
Elke D’hoker University of Leuven Leuven, Belgium
ISBN 978-3-319-30287-4 ISBN 978-3-319-30288-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30288-1
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For my children: Jonathan, Lucas, Leander and Jessica
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book has been several years in the making, so I have reason to be grateful to many colleagues and friends whose conversations on Irish literature, the short story, or academic life in general sustained me in this period. In no particular order, I’d like to thank: Anne Fogarty, Tina O’Toole, Patricia Coughlan, Kathryn Laing, Heather Ingman, Margaret Kelleher, Claire Connolly, Theresa Wray, Grainne Hurley, Derek Hand, Lucy Collins, Maureen O’Connor, Philip Coleman, Rob Luscher, Katharina Rennhak, Fiona McCann, Michelle Ryan-Sautour, Emmanuel Vernandakis, Christine Reynier, Adrian Hunter, Paul Delaney, Jochen Achilles, Ailsa Cox, Sue Lanser, Elke Brems, Bart Van den Bossche, Ortwin de Graef, Hedwig Schwall, Pieter Vermeulen, Stephanie Eggermont, Raphaël Ingelbien, Anke Gilleir, Reine Meylaerts, Dagmar Vandebosch, and all my colleagues at the KU Leuven Arts Faculty, the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and the MDRN research lab. Many parts of this book first saw the light as conference papers, which I presented at several IASIL, EFACIS, SSSS, and ENSFR conferences over the years. Thank you to all the colleagues who provided feedback on those occasions. Some parts of this book have been previously published as articles. Chapter 3 draws on some material from “The Poetics of House and Home in the Short Fiction of Elizabet
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