Too Smart to Be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0268027730 ISBN 13: 9780268027735

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008

Synopsis

In a series of critical and biographical essays, Too Smart to Be Sentimental offers a feminist literary history of twentieth-century Irish America. This collection introduces the reader to the works of twelve contemporary Irish American women writers, some of whom are well known, such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice McDermott, and Tess Gallagher, and some of whom are equally deserving of recognition.

Each chapter focuses on a particular writer, describes and discusses that writer's most important works, contextualizes the discussion with relevant biographical material, and highlights why the writer is representative of the Irish American literary tradition. Too Smart to Be Sentimental―the first critical study of contemporary Irish American women authors―will be invaluable to students and scholars of Irish studies and Irish American literature.

About this title

About the Authors

Sally Barr Ebest is associate professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Kathleen McInerney is associate professor of education at Chicago State University and professor at the Centers for Interamerican Studies, Cuenca, Ecuador.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268027730
• ISBN 13: 9780268027735
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Ebest Sally Barr, McInerney Kathleen