Ellen Mcwilliams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Mcwilliams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcwilliams |
| SIGNATURE | MCWILLIAMS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Irishness in North American Women's Writing
Looking for Irish America in the Memoirs of Mary McCarthy
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Maeve Brennan and James Joyce
As a New York writer, Maeve Brennan forges a relationship with Ireland as home that speaks to the separation and imaginative return so strongly associated with James Joyce while at the same time putting a careful distance between her work and Joyce’s formidable influence. Drawing on archival material at the University of Delaware and the New York Public Library, which amplifies our understanding of some of the intentions and motivations in Brenna…
Irishness and the culture of the Irish abroad
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Irish feminist futures
Claire Bracken’s Irish feminist futures is a critically adventurous study that explores radical new possibilities for thinking about women’s writing in Ireland. The most recent publication in Routl
A sort of Rathmines version of a Dior design’
This article explores the politics of style in the writing of Maeve Brennan. Brennan's concern with style, subjectivity and power is strikingly visible in her short stories and ‘Talk of the Town’ essays for the New Yorker. While in some of her short stories published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, Brennan seems to offer an extended critique of dandyism, elsewhere in her writing self-fashioning takes on an altogether more positive value and is st…
Reading the contemporary Irish novel 1987–2007
These are exciting times for the study of contemporary Irish fiction. Susan Cahill's Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years (2011) began a much-needed investigation of how Irish literary cultur
New perspectives on women and the Irish diaspora
Avenging ‘Bridget’
This article will examine the representation of Irish women servants in Maeve Brennan's short stories, first published in The New Yorker in the 1950s, and collected in The Rose Garden (2001). The Irish ‘Bridget’, the most publicly visible, if troubling, image of Irish womanhood in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, has received much-needed attention from historians and social scientists in the last decade, and is a central figu…
Irish women writers
Elke D'hoker, Raphael Ingelbien, and Hedwig Schwall, Bern, Peter Lang, 2011, 307 pp., £47.00 (paperback), ISBN 9783034302494 The last twenty years have been vital for research on Irish women's writ
London Irish fictions
The past few years have been significant ones for the study of the literature of the Irish diaspora. The appearance of Liam Harte's anthology The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography a
Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction
Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction examines how contemporary Irish authors have taken up the history of the Irish woman migrant. It situates these writers' work in relation to larger discou
Making It Up with the Motherland
This article explores the relationship between the Irish woman writer and exile and return in Edna O'Brien's recent novel The Light of Evening (2006). This work, dedicated as it is ‘To my mother and my motherland’, represents a new chapter in O'Brien's configuration of the connection between the Irish woman writer and the image of Ireland as a place from which escape is a necessary step towards creative freedom. The Light of Evening contains a we…
Architectures of exile
Drawing on readings of ‘home’ in cultural and literary criticism, as well as on historical and social scientific analyses of the experiences of Irish women in England, this article will examine how William Trevor's novel, Felicia's journey, uses space to explore the marginalisation of the Irish woman within Irish and English society. It will begin by examining the ways in which domestic interiors complement the narrative of entrapment and escape …
Madness and Mother Ireland in the fiction of Patrick McCabe
This article explores the relationship between madness and the figure of Mother Ireland in the work of the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. It situates his work in relation to contemporary feminist responses to representations of Ireland as a woman, by identifying different versions of the Mother Ireland figure as a cause of psychosis in McCabe's writing. It argues that McCabe, in contrast to writers such as Eavan Boland and Edna O'Brien, finds an …
Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction
Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction examines how contemporary Irish authors have taken up the history of the Irish woman migrant. It situates these writers' work in relation to larger discou
Avenging ‘Bridget’
This article will examine the representation of Irish women servants in Maeve Brennan's short stories, first published in The New Yorker in the 1950s, and collected in The Rose Garden (2001). The Irish ‘Bridget’, the most publicly visible, if troubling, image of Irish womanhood in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, has received much-needed attention from historians and social scientists in the last decade, and is a central figu…
Making It Up with the Motherland
This article explores the relationship between the Irish woman writer and exile and return in Edna O'Brien's recent novel The Light of Evening (2006). This work, dedicated as it is ‘To my mother and my motherland’, represents a new chapter in O'Brien's configuration of the connection between the Irish woman writer and the image of Ireland as a place from which escape is a necessary step towards creative freedom. The Light of Evening contains a we…
A sort of Rathmines version of a Dior design’
This article explores the politics of style in the writing of Maeve Brennan. Brennan's concern with style, subjectivity and power is strikingly visible in her short stories and ‘Talk of the Town’ essays for the New Yorker. While in some of her short stories published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, Brennan seems to offer an extended critique of dandyism, elsewhere in her writing self-fashioning takes on an altogether more positive value and is st…
London Irish fictions
The past few years have been significant ones for the study of the literature of the Irish diaspora. The appearance of Liam Harte's anthology The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography a
Madness and Mother Ireland in the fiction of Patrick McCabe
This article explores the relationship between madness and the figure of Mother Ireland in the work of the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. It situates his work in relation to contemporary feminist responses to representations of Ireland as a woman, by identifying different versions of the Mother Ireland figure as a cause of psychosis in McCabe's writing. It argues that McCabe, in contrast to writers such as Eavan Boland and Edna O'Brien, finds an …
Making It Up with the Motherland
This article explores the relationship between the Irish woman writer and exile and return in Edna O'Brien's recent novel The Light of Evening (2006). This work, dedicated as it is ‘To my mother and my motherland’, represents a new chapter in O'Brien's configuration of the connection between the Irish woman writer and the image of Ireland as a place from which escape is a necessary step towards creative freedom. The Light of Evening contains a we…
Architectures of exile
Drawing on readings of ‘home’ in cultural and literary criticism, as well as on historical and social scientific analyses of the experiences of Irish women in England, this article will examine how William Trevor's novel, Felicia's journey, uses space to explore the marginalisation of the Irish woman within Irish and English society. It will begin by examining the ways in which domestic interiors complement the narrative of entrapment and escape …
New perspectives on women and the Irish diaspora
Avenging ‘Bridget’
This article will examine the representation of Irish women servants in Maeve Brennan's short stories, first published in The New Yorker in the 1950s, and collected in The Rose Garden (2001). The Irish ‘Bridget’, the most publicly visible, if troubling, image of Irish womanhood in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, has received much-needed attention from historians and social scientists in the last decade, and is a central figu…
Irish women writers
Elke D'hoker, Raphael Ingelbien, and Hedwig Schwall, Bern, Peter Lang, 2011, 307 pp., £47.00 (paperback), ISBN 9783034302494 The last twenty years have been vital for research on Irish women's writ
London Irish fictions
The past few years have been significant ones for the study of the literature of the Irish diaspora. The appearance of Liam Harte's anthology The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography a
Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction
Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction examines how contemporary Irish authors have taken up the history of the Irish woman migrant. It situates these writers' work in relation to larger discou
Reading the contemporary Irish novel 1987–2007
These are exciting times for the study of contemporary Irish fiction. Susan Cahill's Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years (2011) began a much-needed investigation of how Irish literary cultur
A sort of Rathmines version of a Dior design’
This article explores the politics of style in the writing of Maeve Brennan. Brennan's concern with style, subjectivity and power is strikingly visible in her short stories and ‘Talk of the Town’ essays for the New Yorker. While in some of her short stories published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, Brennan seems to offer an extended critique of dandyism, elsewhere in her writing self-fashioning takes on an altogether more positive value and is st…
Maeve Brennan and James Joyce
As a New York writer, Maeve Brennan forges a relationship with Ireland as home that speaks to the separation and imaginative return so strongly associated with James Joyce while at the same time putting a careful distance between her work and Joyce’s formidable influence. Drawing on archival material at the University of Delaware and the New York Public Library, which amplifies our understanding of some of the intentions and motivations in Brenna…
Irishness and the culture of the Irish abroad
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Irish feminist futures
Claire Bracken’s Irish feminist futures is a critically adventurous study that explores radical new possibilities for thinking about women’s writing in Ireland. The most recent publication in Routl
Looking for Irish America in the Memoirs of Mary McCarthy
No description available
Irishness in North American Women's Writing
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