Acknowledgments

Introduction

Kathryn Kirkpatrick

Acts of Union: Family Violence and National Courtship in Maria Edgeworth's The Absentee and Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl

Julia Anne Miller

Forging a Tradition: Emily Lawless and the Irish Literary Canon

James M. Cahalan

``Things Which Seem to You Unfeminine'': Gender and Nationalism in the Fiction of Some Upper Middle Class Catholic Women Novelists, 1880-1910

James H. Murphy

Irish Poetry and the Modernist Canon: A Reappraisal of Katharine Tynan

Donna L. Potts

``A Woman of the House'': Gender and Nationalism in the Writings of Augusta Gregory

Anne Fogarty

A Trackless Road: Irish Nationalisms and Lesbian Writing

Ann Owens Weeks

Women Are Trousers

Medbh McGukian

Revisionist Cartography: The Politics of Place in Boland and Heaney

Katie Conboy

Reproducing the Nation: Nationalism, Reproduction, and Paternalism in Anne Devlin's Ourselves Alone

Ann Rea

``Instead I Said I Am a Home Baker'': Nationalist Ideology and Materialist Politics in Mary Beckett's Give Them Stones

Megan Sullivan

Public Spaces, Private Lives: Irish Identity and Female Selfhood in the Novels of Jennifer Johnston

Racheal Sealy Lynch

The Attic LIPs: Feminist Pamphleteering for the New Ireland

Katherine Martin Gray

Contributors

Index