Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture is a new monograph series that
aims to represent the most innovative research on literary works that were produced in the …

Alice McDermott—winner of the National Book Award, American Book Award, and Whiting
Award, and three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—recently published her eighth novel, The …

Notwithstanding a reputation as one of the most electric contemporary voices on sexuality,
queer identity and the ecstatic adventures of a tenacious poet in New York–a notoriety …

Startling Figures is about Catholic fiction in a secular age and the rhetorical strategies
Catholic writers employ to reach a skeptical, indifferent, or even hostile audience. Although …

The post-Celtic Tiger era has seen an intensification of social movement activisms,
mobilized as a response to the inequities and severities of economic and cultural austerity …

The proTagonisT of Irish American writer Mary Gordon's first novel, Final Payments (1978),
spends much of her childhood nurturing a hatred of the family housekeeper, a middle-aged …

Alice McDermott's work is often cited as being an exemplar of the best that contemporary
Catholic literature has to offer, and yet sustained close readings of her fiction are lacking. In …

This chapter examines how Alice McDermott's work traces the changing fortunes of Irish-
American communities in the twentieth century, and the lives of Irish-American women in …

In this dissertation, I argue that violence is a consistent theme in contemporary (post-1945)
fiction written by American Catholics, and that these authors employ violence as an aesthetic …

Abstract In At Weddings and Wakes, Alice McDermott crafts her story's structure as non
chronological, which allows for characters' memories, and significant incidents to all in some …