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Filtering by: Date issued sim 2008-06-04 Subject Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973 -- Characters -- Women

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