Interconnections between Art and Commerce
Literary Prizes, Readers, and the Reading Committee of the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933–1958)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8863459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deirdre F Brady (Mary Immaculate College, St. Patrick's Campus, Ireland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1077-1096 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2023.2257085 |
| OpenAlex | W4388836320 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This essay examines the interconnections between art and commerce that lie behind cultural production. Using the case study of the Irish Women Writers’ Club (1933–1958), it explores the political, cultural, and social realms in which alliances are formed and supported, and the intersections between culture and the business of books, art, and politics, reading committees and readers. It extends on recent scholarship which positions women writers firmly at the centre of Irish literary life in the mid-twentieth century, offering new unpublished accounts of the club, their public activities and reading practices, and the machinations behind the reading committee that awarded the literary prize, the Book of the Year, from the period 1936–1939. As progressives, they leveraged their connections, national and international, to maintain a space for female intellectual thought while keeping alive the tradition of women's writing for future generations
Aesthetics · Art · Club · Irish · Literature · Media studies · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Scholarship · Sociology · Irish and British Studies · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Scottish History and National Identity · History · Law
Reading the Irish Woman
Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933-1958)
The Economy of Prestige
New woman poets and the culture of the salon at the fin de siècle
The Modern Weekly for the Modern Woman’
The Politics of Sexual Difference
Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change
Book Clubs and Book Commerce
The metamorphosis of modes of consecration in the literary field
The Politics of Gender in the Irish Free State, 1922-1937
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |