Author: Thomas C. MackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Priest's Turf-cutting Day
Author: Thomas C. MackThe Irish Voice in America
Author: Charles FanningPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years. Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the twentieth century beginning with James T. Farrell. Later writers treated in depth include Edwin O'Connor, Elizabeth Cullinan, Maureen Howard, and William Kennedy. Along the way he places in the historical record many all but forgotten writers, including the prolific Mary Ann Sadlier. The Irish Voice in America is not only a highly readable contribution to American literary history but also a valuable reference to many writers and their works. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience.
The Exiles of Erin
Author: Charles FanningPublisher: Dufour Editions
ISBN: 0802360602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Of immense value to anyone interested in the Irish story in America.--The Boston Globe. This collection of three generations of Irish immigrant fiction excerpted from novels, magazines, and newspapers provides new insight into the nineteenth-century immigrant experience. It captures the spirit of those who were experiencing the traumas of adjustment and assimilation. The men and women authors of these pieces vividly render the details of immigrant life in a variety of settings, from Virginia and Nebraska to San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston, from 1820 to 1906. Fanning places each selection in its historical and cultural context by means of introductory notes. Together, they provide the most extended, continuous body of literature available to us by members of a single American ethnic group. This new edition provides some additional selections as well as new background material. Charles Fanning is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Finding List for Novels in the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Author: Mercantile Library of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Transactions of the Albany Institute
Author: Albany InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Albany (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Alphabetical List (by Title) of the Class of Prose Fiction
Author: Mercantile Library of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library: 1855--Catalogue of the New York State Library: 1861
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library, 1861
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library : 1861. General Library: First Supplement
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description