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Filtering by: Creator Kucey, Brennan Mark Decade 2000-2009 Resource Type Masters Thesis Subject Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973. -- Last September

From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

Creator:

Breeden, Shobana L.

Abstract:

This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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Baba Brennan. With this in mind, O’Brien reasons, “Baba came to me partly through an impatience