This course will explore literary works by Irish women working in a wide range of genres: novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. We will investigate how women writers responded to the important political, social, and economic upheavals of the twentieth century: revolutions and wars, alterations in class structures, and changes in gender relations, sexual mores, and the status of women. We will also examine how our writers responded to, and helped shape, the major literary movements of the time, such as the Irish Revival and Counter-Revival, modernism and postmodernism. Writers to be studied include Augusta Gregory, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Theresa Deevy, Eavan Boland, Edna O'Brien, Paula Meehan, and Emma Donoghoe.
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