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1 online resource (459 pages) |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
Edition |
Second edition. |
Contents |
Introduction: Two cycles of Irish-American fiction -- Backgrounds and a habit of satire -- The profession of novelist: James McHenry and Charles Cannon -- The famine generation: practical fiction for immigrants -- Mrs. Sadler and Father Quigley -- Respectability and realism: ambivalent fictions -- Mr. Egan and Mr. Dooley -- A generation lost -- James T. Farrell and Irish-American fiction -- Regional realists of the Thirties and Forties -- "These Traits Endure" : the Irish voice in recent American fiction -- Liberating doubleness in the Nineties. |
ISBN |
9780813148335 (electronic bk.) |
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0813148332 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813109701 |
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0813109701 (paper ; alk. paper) |
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