The Irish Voice in America

" Winner of the American Conference for Irish Studies Prize for Literary Criticism The Irish Voice in America surveys the fiction written by the Irish in America over the past two hundred and fifty years. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction. The Two Cycles of Irish-American Fiction

1

(5)

Backgrounds and a Habit of Satire

6

(33)

The Profession of Novelist: James McHenry and Charles Cannon

39

(33)

The Famine Generation: Practical Fiction for Immigrants

72

(42)

Mrs. Sadlier and Father Quigley

114

(39)

Respectability and Realism: Ambivalent Fictions

153

(45)

Mr. Egan and Mr. Dooley

198

(40)

A Generation Lost

238

(19)

James T. Farrell and Irish-American Fiction

257

(35)

Regional Realists of the Thirties and Forties

292

(20)

``These Traits Endure'': The Irish Voice in Recent American Fiction

312

(46)

Liberating Doubleness in the Nineties

358

(34)

Notes

392

(20)

Works Cited

412

(21)

Index

433

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