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001 2007038704
003 DLC
005 20080405101637.0
008 070918s2008 inu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007038704
020 $a9780268027735 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0268027730 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn173218797
035 $a(OCoLC)173218797$z(OCoLC)154790006
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPS153.I78$bT66 2008
082 00 $a810.9/9287$222
245 00 $aToo smart to be sentimental :$bcontemporary Irish American women writers /$cedited by Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney ; foreword by Caledonia Kearns.
260 $aNotre Dame, Ind. :$bUniversity of Notre Dame Press,$cc2008.
300 $axiv, 254 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMary Mccarthy : too smart to be sentimental / Sally Barr Ebest -- Maureen Howard's "Landscapes of memory" / Patricia Keefe Durso -- Moments of kindness, moments of recognition : the achievement of Maeve Brennan / John M. Menaghan -- "Forget about being Irish" : family, transgression, and identity in the fiction of Elizabeth Cullinan / Kathleen McInerney -- Alice McDermott's narrators / Beatrice Jacobson -- Tess Gallagher : a network of sympathies and distant connections / Mary Ann Ryan -- "I'm your man" : Irish American masculinity in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Susana Araújo -- Hardly sentimental : the "bad girls" and lonely men of Mary McGarry Morris's fiction / Patricia Gott -- Blurring boundaries : Eileen Myles and the Irish American identity / Kathleen Ann Kremins -- The world of Mary Gordon : writing from the "other side" / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw -- Jean McGarry : sojourners between dreams and realities / Amy Lee -- Erin McGraw : expanding the tradition of Irish American women writers / Sally Barr Ebest.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xIrish American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aIrish Americans in literature.
650 0 $aIrish Americans$xEthnic identity.
700 1 $aEbest, Sally Barr.
700 1 $aMcInerney, Kathleen H.