Companion to Irish Literature (eBook)

Julia M. Wright is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. She is the author of Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation (2004) and Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2007), and the editor of Irish Literature, 1750-1900: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).

"Feminist Literary Theory is an indispensable guide,
companion and handbook for students and teachers of women's
literature. No other anthology offers so many bite-sized tasters of
work on gendered authorship, literary production, critical
reception, sexuality and genre - from romantic fiction to
travel writing. Mary Eagleton's clear and informative
introductions contextualize the debates represented by each
extract, suggest connections between them and point to further
reading. This Third Edition maintains and develops the
irreplaceable breadth of the previous editions with several new
pieces on such areas as autobiography, science fiction and border
talk. The extra section, 'Writing Glocal', investigates
dynamically evolving dialogues between feminism and
postcolonialism, diaspora narratives and transculturalism. Whether
you read from start to finish or choose to sample selectively, this
rich collection will expand your knowledge and understanding of
feminist thought, both as an historical discipline and as an
excitingly relevant and progressive set of ideas."

--Jane Dowson, De Montfort University.