Maeve Brennan

A Place in the Mind
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-55612-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Women's Literature

This book explores the intricate interplay between physical spaces and psychological landscapes in the works of Irish-American author Maeve Brennan. Brennan’s writing is now classed amongst the most important of twentieth-century Irish women’s fiction, having undergone a significant reclamation and reappraisal in the 30 years since her death. Single and childfree for most of her life, Brennan eschewed the securities of family and home, experiencing an "otherness" that she shared with her fellow New Yorkers, many of them left, she wrote, hanging on to a city half-capsized––“most of them still able to laugh as they cling to the island that is their life’s predicament.” It is a suitably ambiguous expression for a writer who cultivated an interstitial existence, whose stories inhere within a dream cycle of reiterative pasts, and whose works augment and elevate the canon of radical Irish fiction.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Rourke, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments



Introduction

1. Urban Space

2. Diasporic Space

3. Manic Space

4. Feminine Space

5. Queer Space



Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

List of Abbreviations

Über Autor(innen)

Edward O’Rourke completed his PhD in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published on the topics of women in urban space, femme theory, and twentieth-century Irish women's writing. O’Rourke's research interests include postcolonial literature and the representation of mania in the diasporic literature of women writers. He currently teaches at Mount Sackville in Dublin.