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Changing Ireland

Strategies in Contemporary Women's Fiction

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  • © 2000

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  1. Christine St. Peter
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-10

  3. Authorship, the Forbidden Country

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    Pages 11-39

  4. Women Writing Exile

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    Pages 40-65

  5. Returning from the ‘Ghost Place’: Recomposing History

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    Pages 66-93

  6. ‘The War That Has Gone Into Us’: Troubles From the North

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    Pages 94-121

  7. Traveling Back Home: the Blockbusters of Patricia Scanlan and Maeve Binchy

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    Pages 122-146

  8. Feminist Fiction

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    Pages 147-169

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 170-217
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About this book

During the past twenty-five years, Ireland has seen an explosion of women's fiction - hundreds of published works that reimagine the inherited literary traditions and the social contexts of women's lives. Changing Ireland examines women's use of historical fiction, exile literature, Northern war narratives, speculative fiction, and classic 'realism', and looks at the local Irish forms of international women's genres like the romance novel and feminist fiction.

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'...St Peter has produced a scholarly and useful study...this book will provide a spring-board for students who want to pursue material in this field, a factor which does credit to its author's accessible and generous critical style.' - Eve Patten, Irish Times

About the author

Christine St. Peter is Associate Professor and Chair of Women's Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.

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