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Author:

Giemza, Bryan Albin.

Title:

Irish Catholic writers and the invention of the American South / Bryan Giemza.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xi, 361 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
Authors, American--Southern States--History and criticism.
Irish American Catholics--Southern States.
Southern States--Irish influences.--Irish influences.
Southern States--Intellectual life.
Southern States--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Mavericks of religion -- Pt. 1. Gospels of war and peace. New Irish, old South: revolution and its discontents -- Old Irish, New South: a bridge to the moderns -- Pt. 2. Habits of satire and insubordination. Staging Irishness -- Flannery O'Connor's dear old dirty southland -- Pt. 3. Legacies of flight and return. Cormac McCarthy, an Irish southerner among the heresiarchs -- After Mary Flannery, more strange hatchlings -- Coda.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

0807150908 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807150900 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)819631715

LCCN:

2012048402

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word Seminary - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)