Product Description: This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective nations. In the first wave, nationalist and militant ideologies competed with the suffrage fight in Ireland...read more

'The text explores the extent to which islands inspired radical thinkers Charles Darwin, Paul Gauguin, John Millington Synge, D.H. Lawrence and Margaret Mead to perform innovative work. Each used islands differently, but similar phenomena affected their choice of place and the outcome of their projects. Their examples illuminate the relationship of modernism to alienation and insularity'--Provided by publisher.

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