The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power

by Jennifer M. Jeffers

Book Overview

The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century interprets a wide variety of the most interesting Irish novels of the last ten years of the century from a perspective that focuses on the regulated sexual and constructed gendered body. The demarcating line of identity;the perennial Irish problem;is gauged at the basic level of sexual and gender identity in contrast to or in alliance with political, social, religious, or cultural norms. All mechanisms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312238398
• ISBN13: 9780312238391
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"