Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story

Elke D'hoker is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leuven, Belgium, where she is also co-director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies. She has previously published Visions of Alterity (2004) and, as editor, Mary Lavin (2013) and The Irish Short Story (2015).

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- 1. Mothers of the Irish Short Story: George Egerton and Somerville and Ross.- 2. Houses and Homes in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Bowen and Maeve Brennan.- 3. Mary Lavin's Relational Selves.- 4. Staging the Community in Irish Short Fiction: Choruses, Cycles and Crimes.- 5. The Rebellious Daughters of Edna O'Brien and Claire Keegan.- 6. Double Visions: The Metafictional Stories of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Enright and Donoghue.- Bibliography.- Index.

"This is a stimulating and engaging account that justifies its focus on women writers by the fresh angles it opens up on the Irish short story so often viewed as settled around themes and styles defined by male writers and critics." (Heather Ingman, Review of Irish Studies in Europe - RISE, Vol. 2 (01), March, 2018)

“This is a stimulating and engaging account that justifies its focus on women writers by the fresh angles it opens up on the Irish short story so often viewed as settled around themes and styles defined by male writers and critics.” (Heather Ingman, Review of Irish Studies in Europe – RISE, Vol. 2 (01), March, 2018)