Jane Elizabeth Dougherty
Biographic Data
| ID | 4432007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Elizabeth Dougherty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Dougherty |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGHERTY J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9334-7315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916–2018
Offers the first full-length study of Irish female developmental narratives Discusses texts by James Joyce, John McGahern, Hannah Lynch, Kate O’Brien, Lady Gregory, Maud Gonne, Mary Colum, Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O’Brien, Dervla Murphy, Clare Boylan, Nuala O’Faolain, Eavan Boland, Anne Enright, Claire Keegan, Eimear McBride, Éilís ní Dhuibhne, Melatu Uche Okorie, and Soula Emmanuel Examines the form, narration, and content of fictional, non-fiction…
The Honor of Modernity
Recent scholarship has revealed the extent of eighteenth-century debates about the salience of honor in a rapidly modernizing Britain. However, Maria Edgeworth's contributions to these debates have not been recognized, perhaps because of the uneven and disputed modernization of her adopted home, Ireland, with its three competing eighteenth-century “honor worlds.” Ireland's shifting and contested eighteenth-century honor discourses shape and missh…
Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018
Studying narratives of Irish female and feminised development from 1916 to 2018, the book argues that these narratives present Irish female maturation as disordered and deliberately disorderly. Examining the form, narration, and content of Irish fictional, non-fictional, and national developmental narratives, the book offers the first full-length study of the Irish female coming of age story. The book develops a feminist psychoanalytic narratolog…
Never Tear the Linnet from the Leaf”
JANE ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY, “Never Tear the Linnet from the Leaf”: The Feminist Intertextuality of Edna O’Brien’s Down by the River, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3 (2010), pp. 77-102
The reader as writer, the author as con artist
Nuala O'Faolain seeks to revise the life story of May Churchill Sharp, an international con woman born in Ireland, in hopes of establishing a feminist identification with her. But O'Faolain's claim for her writing of a kind of authorial authenticity ultimately precludes an identification with Sharp, as Sharp's narrative – like all narratives – is a criminal narrative which renders feminist ‘authenticity’ impossible to achieve, something O'Faolain…
Nuala O'Faolain and the Unwritten Irish Girlhood
Nuala O'Faolain and the Unwritten Irish Girlhood Jane Elizabeth Dougherty Southern Illinois University, Carbondale In his 1984 study of the literary childhood, Richard Coe asserts that there is no "revealing difference" between male and female childhoods.1 Whatever the truth of this assertion might be when applied to other national literatures, when speaking of the literature of Ireland it is clearly false. Even casual readers could probably name…
An Angel in the House
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Nuala O'Faolain and the Unwritten Irish Girlhood
Nuala O'Faolain and the Unwritten Irish Girlhood Jane Elizabeth Dougherty Southern Illinois University, Carbondale In his 1984 study of the literary childhood, Richard Coe asserts that there is no "revealing difference" between male and female childhoods.1 Whatever the truth of this assertion might be when applied to other national literatures, when speaking of the literature of Ireland it is clearly false. Even casual readers could probably name…
An Angel in the House
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Nuala O'Faolain and the Unwritten Irish Girlhood
Nuala O'Faolain and the Unwritten Irish Girlhood Jane Elizabeth Dougherty Southern Illinois University, Carbondale In his 1984 study of the literary childhood, Richard Coe asserts that there is no "revealing difference" between male and female childhoods.1 Whatever the truth of this assertion might be when applied to other national literatures, when speaking of the literature of Ireland it is clearly false. Even casual readers could probably name…
The reader as writer, the author as con artist
Nuala O'Faolain seeks to revise the life story of May Churchill Sharp, an international con woman born in Ireland, in hopes of establishing a feminist identification with her. But O'Faolain's claim for her writing of a kind of authorial authenticity ultimately precludes an identification with Sharp, as Sharp's narrative – like all narratives – is a criminal narrative which renders feminist ‘authenticity’ impossible to achieve, something O'Faolain…
Never Tear the Linnet from the Leaf”
JANE ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY, “Never Tear the Linnet from the Leaf”: The Feminist Intertextuality of Edna O’Brien’s Down by the River, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3 (2010), pp. 77-102
Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018
Studying narratives of Irish female and feminised development from 1916 to 2018, the book argues that these narratives present Irish female maturation as disordered and deliberately disorderly. Examining the form, narration, and content of Irish fictional, non-fictional, and national developmental narratives, the book offers the first full-length study of the Irish female coming of age story. The book develops a feminist psychoanalytic narratolog…
Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916–2018
Offers the first full-length study of Irish female developmental narratives Discusses texts by James Joyce, John McGahern, Hannah Lynch, Kate O’Brien, Lady Gregory, Maud Gonne, Mary Colum, Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O’Brien, Dervla Murphy, Clare Boylan, Nuala O’Faolain, Eavan Boland, Anne Enright, Claire Keegan, Eimear McBride, Éilís ní Dhuibhne, Melatu Uche Okorie, and Soula Emmanuel Examines the form, narration, and content of fictional, non-fiction…
The Honor of Modernity
Recent scholarship has revealed the extent of eighteenth-century debates about the salience of honor in a rapidly modernizing Britain. However, Maria Edgeworth's contributions to these debates have not been recognized, perhaps because of the uneven and disputed modernization of her adopted home, Ireland, with its three competing eighteenth-century “honor worlds.” Ireland's shifting and contested eighteenth-century honor discourses shape and missh…
Irish and British Studies (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Irish (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Narrative (2 works)