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100 1 a| Murphy, Naoise,e| author.?| UNAUTHORIZED;

245 10 a| Queering twentieth-century Irish women's writing :b| uneasy moderns /c| Naoise Murphy.;

264 1 a| Edinburgh :b| Edinburgh University Press,c| [2026];

300 a| vii, 211 pages ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-206) and index.;

520 a| "Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers - Dorothy Macardle, Kate O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane - this book unsettles the conventional narratives of modern Irish culture.Despite attempts to impose a linear narrative of progress, feel-good accounts are clearly inadequate to the realities of contemporary Ireland.Guided by a queer refusal to move on from bad feelings, Naoise Murphy disrupts common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state.Lingering with unease and discomfort in the work of mid-twentieth-century women writers and the spaces they occupied, this book pays close attention to inadmissible feelings of loss, anxiety, hauntedness and melancholia.By embracing discomfort, it moves towards a less idealising form of queer studies that is more responsive to the complexity of queer history, and offers a new story of Irish culture in the twentieth century."--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Queering twentieth-century Irish women's writing : uneasy moderns / Naoise Murphy.

Author/creator	Murphy, Naoise author.
Format	Book
Publication	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026]
Copyright Date	©2026
Description	vii, 211 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects	English literature--Women authors. --20th century. --History and criticism. English literature--Irish authors. --20th century. --History and criticism. Sexual minorities in literature.

Contents	Introduction: Uneasy Spaces -- Chapter 1 Dorothy Macardle's Middlebrow Gothic Pleasures -- Chapter 2 Kate O'Brien's Queer Holy Women -- Chapter 3 Elizabeth Bowen's Queer Melancholia -- Chapter 4 Molly Keane's Anglo-Irish Camp -- Epilogue: Making Space -- Bibliography -- Index
Abstract	"Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers - Dorothy Macardle, Kate O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane - this book unsettles the conventional narratives of modern Irish culture.Despite attempts to impose a linear narrative of progress, feel-good accounts are clearly inadequate to the realities of contemporary Ireland.Guided by a queer refusal to move on from bad feelings, Naoise Murphy disrupts common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state.Lingering with unease and discomfort in the work of mid-twentieth-century women writers and the spaces they occupied, this book pays close attention to inadmissible feelings of loss, anxiety, hauntedness and melancholia.By embracing discomfort, it moves towards a less idealising form of queer studies that is more responsive to the complexity of queer history, and offers a new story of Irish culture in the twentieth century."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-206) and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Murphy, Naoise. Queering twentieth-century Irish women's writing. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026] 9781399547482
ISBN	9781399547468
ISBN	1399547461 (hardback)
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