Modern Irish Autobiography

Self, Nation and Society

L. Harte

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9781403912688
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230206069
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Literature

Modern Irish Autobiography provides the first comprehensive critical analysis of the Irish autobiographical tradition from the early nineteenth century to the present day. This pioneering collection offers readers a stimulating and provocative introduction to the principal themes, modes and narrative strategies of Irish autobiographers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Autobiography and the Irish Cultural Moment
• 1 ‘With a Heroic Life and a Governing Mind’: Nineteenth-Century Irish Nationalist Autobiography
• 2 Creating the Self, Recreating the Nation: The Politics of Irish Literary Autobiography from Moore to Behan
• 3 ‘Life Purified and Reprojected’: Autobiography and the Modern Irish Novel
• 4 Pilgrimage to the Self: Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Irish Women
• 5 ‘Loss, Return, and Restitution’: Autobiography and Irish Diasporic Subjectivity
• 6 Breaking the Silence: Emigration, Gender and the Making of Irish Cultural Memory
• 7 Twentieth-Century Gaelic Autobiography: From lieux de mémoire to Narratives of Self-invention
• 8 ‘Drawing the Line and Making the Tot’: Aspects of Irish Protestant Life Writing
• 9 Fighting Without Guns?: Political Autobiography in Contemporary Northern Ireland
• 10 ‘Voice Itself’: The Loss and Recovery of Boyhood in Irish Memoir
• 11 Memoirs of an Autobiographer
• Bibliography
• Index