Research Catalog

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Description

1. x, 448 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "The Irish Voice in America surveys the fiction written by the Irish in America over the past two hundred and fifty years. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform title

1. Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

1. American fiction > History and criticism
2. Ireland > In literature
3. Irish Americans > Intellectual life
4. Irish Americans in literature

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction: the two cycles of Irish-American fiction -- Backgrounds and a habit of satire -- The profession of novelist: James McHenry and Charles Cannon -- The famine generation: practical fiction for immigrants -- Mrs. Sadlier and Father Quigley -- Respectability and realism: ambivalent fictions -- Mr. Egan and Mr. Dooley -- A generation lost -- James T. Farrell and Irish-American fiction -- Regional realists of the Thirties and Forties -- "These traits endure" : the Irish voice in recent American fiction -- Liberating doubleness in the Nineties.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain