Maeve Brennan: A Place in the Mind [Hardcover]

This book offers a critical overview of the effects of space, physical and conceptual, in the works of Irish American author Maeve Brennan. Single and childfree, Brennans iconoclastic attitudes to home, family, and womanhood place her work within the canon of radical Irish fiction.

Acknowledgments

 

Introduction

1.     Urban Space

2.     Diasporic Space

3.     Manic Space

4.     Feminine Space

5.     Queer Space

 

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

List of Abbreviations

Edward ORourke has written a sensitive and lucid analysis of the world and work of Maeve Brennan. Scholarly but never scholastic, his book shows him as one who has the gift of explanation rather than simplification. He has a heightened awareness of the nuances of Brennans style along with a sure grasp of the sociocultural realities out of which her writing came. His book will bring this gifted and unusual woman to a new generation of readers.

Prof. Declan Kiberd, author of Inventing Ireland (1996) and Ulysses and Us (2009)

Edward ORourke completed his PhD in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published on the topics of women in urban space, femme theory, and twentieth-century Irish women's writing.  ORourke's research interests include postcolonial literaturel“¨