Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Kathryn Kirkpatrick
  • Acts of union : family violence and national courtship in Maria Edgeworth's The absentee and Sydney Owenson's The wild Irish girl / Julia Anne Miller
  • Forging tradition : Emily Lawless and the Irish literary canon / James M. Cahalan
  • Things which seem to you unfeminine : gender and nationalism in the fiction of some upper middle class Catholic women novelists, 1880-1910 / James H. Murphy
  • Irish poetry and the modernist canon : a reappraisal of Katharine Tynan / Donna L. Potts
  • A woman of the house : gender and nationalism in the writings of Augusta Gregory / Anne Fogarty
  • Trackless road : Irish nationalisms and lesbian writing / Ann Owens Weekes
  • Women are trousers / Medbh McGuckian
  • Revisionist cartography : the politics of place in Boland and Heaney / Katie Conboy
  • Reproducing the nation : nationalism, reproduction, and paternalism in Anne Devlin's Ourselves alone / Anne Rea
  • Instead I said I am a home baker : nationalist ideology and materialist politics in Mary Beckett's Give them stones / Megan Sullivan
  • Public spaces, private lives : Irish identity and female selfhood in the novels of Jennifer Johnston / Rachael Sealy Lynch
  • The attic LIPs : feminist pamphleteering for the new Ireland / Katherine Martin Grey.