notes on one hundred years of lives and letters in American culture
First Statement of Responsibility
Jack Morgan.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Basingstoke
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(297 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
New directions in Irish and Irish American literature
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Part I, Nineteenth century : --;Among Cromwell's children: the Irish and Yankee New England --;Requiem for the St. John: Thoreau's "The shipwreck" as an Irish famine narrative --;Blighted prospects: Irish historical haunting in America --;Fair and funeral: Henry O'Clarence McCarthy and the American Fenian years --;Broom and Bridget: the Irish servant and the New England household --;Harold Frederic, the Irish, and the damnation of Theron Ware ; --;Part II, Twentieth century : --;The Liffey to the Red River: demented mentors in Joyce's "The sisters" and Scott Fitzgerald's "Absolution" --;John Ford, the Irish, and his Cavalry trilogy --;Jack Conroy, the Irish American left, and the radical Irish legacy --;Dublin to Bodega Bay: the dark side of Alfred Hitchcock's Juno and the Paycock --;"Missouri sequence": Brian Coffey's St. Louis years --;Migration and memory: Irish poetry in the United States --;The Celtic carnivalesque and Muriel Rukeyser's Irish journey of passion and transformation --;"He's Irish, and he broods easy": John McNulty and the Irish cohort at The New Yorker.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Irish Americans -- Biography.
Irish Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Irish Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.