Liam Harte, ed., Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2007), ix, 260pp.
CONTENTS
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Introduction: [Liam Harte,] Autobiography and the Irish Cultural Moment;
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Liam Harte, With a Heroic Life and a Governing Mind: Irish Nationalist Autobiography in the Nineteenth Century;
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Liam Harte, Creating the Self, Recreating the Nation: The Politics of Irish Literary Autobiography from Moore to Behan;
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Berenice Schrank, Life Purified and Reprojected: Autobiography and the Modern Irish Novel;
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Eve Patten, Pilgrimage to the Self: Autobiographies by Twentieth-Century Irish Women;
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Taura S. Napier, Loss, Return, and Restitution: Autobiography and Irish Diasporic Subjectivity;
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Liam Harte, Breaking the Silence: Emigration, Gender and the making of Irish Cultural Memory;
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B. Gray, Twentieth-Century Gaelic Autobiography: from lieux de memoire to Narratives of Self-Invention;
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Maire Nic Eoin, Drawing the Line and making the Tot: Aspects of Irish Protestant Life Writing;
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Barry Sloan, Fighting without Guns?: Political Autobiography in Contemporary Northern Ireland;
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S. Hopkins, Voice Itself: The Loss and Recovery of Boyhood in Irish Memoir;
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Denis Sampson, Memoirs of an Autobiographer;
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George OBrien, Bibliography.
- Index.
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[Authors treated incl. John Mitchel, Augusta Gregory, George Moore, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Sean OCasey, Kate OBrien, Eavan Boland, Gerry Adams, John McGahern and George OBrien.] |
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