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Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland

Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland

Scheible examines how modern and contemporary Irish fiction often employs the Irish domestic interior and representations of the female body as Mother Ireland to emphasize the biopolitical relationship between Irish femininity, female sexuality, and the nation.

Ellen Scheible

  • Bloomsbury Academic
  • 9781350429109
  • 192 pages
  • Hardback
  • United Kingdom
  • Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers