Clair Wills
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clair Wills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clair |
| FAMILY NAME | Wills |
| SIGNATURE | WILLS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Best Are Leaving
Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging study of post-war Irish emigrant culture. Wills analyses representations of emigrants from Ireland and of Irish immigrants in Britain across a range of discourses, including official documents, sociological texts, clerical literature, journalism, drama, literary fiction, and popular literature and film. This book, written by a leading critic of Irish literature and culture, discu…
And Then There Was India’
This paper analyses the impact of the Second World War and its aftermath on Irish attitudes towards India. Sustained Irish engagement with Indian affairs seems to decrease markedly during the 1940s – especially in contrast to the years of the League Against Imperialism, or the revolutionary years 1916–23. By the middle of the war, and certainly by 1947, analogies between Irish and Indian political struggles and Commonwealth solutions were a regul…
That Neutral Island
When the world descended into war in 1939, a few European countries remained neutral, and few states were more controversial than Ireland. This book takes in the full breadth of the Irish wartime experience, describing a pivotal moment in the history of Anglo-Irish relations
Women Writers and the Death of Rural Ireland
In May 1942 Ria Mooney produced Jack B. Yeats's two-act play La La Noo at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. Its fusion of a realist setting, in a pub in a remote area of the western seaboard, and a fatalistic, almost symbolic, treatment of death, owes something to Synge and something to W.B. Yeats, but it is more playful than either. A party of seven women shelter from the rain and strip off their wet clothes in a back room, handing them out to be dri…
The Aesthetics of Irish Neutrality during the Second World War
Research Article| February 01 2004 The Aesthetics of Irish Neutrality during the Second World War Clair Wills Clair Wills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 119–145. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-1-119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Searc…
The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume V
The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume IV
Women, Domesticity and the Family
This article examines recent feminist work on the modernization of the Irish family which occurred during the twentieth century. It argues that social agencies, including prominently the Catholic Church, encouraged women to introduce ‘enlightened’ notions of order and hygiene into the family, while seeking to inhibit the development of individualist aspirations to personal pleasure, domesticity and romance. It also considers the development of li…
Joyce, Prostitution, and the Colonial City
Research Article| January 01 1996 Joyce, Prostitution, and the Colonial City Clair Wills Clair Wills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (1): 79–95. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-1-79 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Clair Wills; Joyce, Prostitution, and the Colonial City. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1996; 95 (1)…
Contemporary women's poetry
Language Politics, Narrative, Political Violence
Language Politics, Narrative, Political Violence
Women Writers and the Death of Rural Ireland
In May 1942 Ria Mooney produced Jack B. Yeats's two-act play La La Noo at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. Its fusion of a realist setting, in a pub in a remote area of the western seaboard, and a fatalistic, almost symbolic, treatment of death, owes something to Synge and something to W.B. Yeats, but it is more playful than either. A party of seven women shelter from the rain and strip off their wet clothes in a back room, handing them out to be dri…
The Best Are Leaving
Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging study of post-war Irish emigrant culture. Wills analyses representations of emigrants from Ireland and of Irish immigrants in Britain across a range of discourses, including official documents, sociological texts, clerical literature, journalism, drama, literary fiction, and popular literature and film. This book, written by a leading critic of Irish literature and culture, discu…
The Aesthetics of Irish Neutrality during the Second World War
Research Article| February 01 2004 The Aesthetics of Irish Neutrality during the Second World War Clair Wills Clair Wills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 119–145. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-1-119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Searc…
Language Politics, Narrative, Political Violence
Contemporary women's poetry
Joyce, Prostitution, and the Colonial City
Research Article| January 01 1996 Joyce, Prostitution, and the Colonial City Clair Wills Clair Wills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (1): 79–95. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-1-79 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Clair Wills; Joyce, Prostitution, and the Colonial City. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1996; 95 (1)…
Women, Domesticity and the Family
This article examines recent feminist work on the modernization of the Irish family which occurred during the twentieth century. It argues that social agencies, including prominently the Catholic Church, encouraged women to introduce ‘enlightened’ notions of order and hygiene into the family, while seeking to inhibit the development of individualist aspirations to personal pleasure, domesticity and romance. It also considers the development of li…
The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume V
The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume IV
The Aesthetics of Irish Neutrality during the Second World War
Research Article| February 01 2004 The Aesthetics of Irish Neutrality during the Second World War Clair Wills Clair Wills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 119–145. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-1-119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Searc…
Women Writers and the Death of Rural Ireland
In May 1942 Ria Mooney produced Jack B. Yeats's two-act play La La Noo at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. Its fusion of a realist setting, in a pub in a remote area of the western seaboard, and a fatalistic, almost symbolic, treatment of death, owes something to Synge and something to W.B. Yeats, but it is more playful than either. A party of seven women shelter from the rain and strip off their wet clothes in a back room, handing them out to be dri…
That Neutral Island
When the world descended into war in 1939, a few European countries remained neutral, and few states were more controversial than Ireland. This book takes in the full breadth of the Irish wartime experience, describing a pivotal moment in the history of Anglo-Irish relations
And Then There Was India’
This paper analyses the impact of the Second World War and its aftermath on Irish attitudes towards India. Sustained Irish engagement with Indian affairs seems to decrease markedly during the 1940s – especially in contrast to the years of the League Against Imperialism, or the revolutionary years 1916–23. By the middle of the war, and certainly by 1947, analogies between Irish and Indian political struggles and Commonwealth solutions were a regul…
The Best Are Leaving
Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging study of post-war Irish emigrant culture. Wills analyses representations of emigrants from Ireland and of Irish immigrants in Britain across a range of discourses, including official documents, sociological texts, clerical literature, journalism, drama, literary fiction, and popular literature and film. This book, written by a leading critic of Irish literature and culture, discu…
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