Transatlantic Renaissances

Informationen zum Autor By Kathryn Stelmach Artuso Klappentext Tracing the transatlantic influence of the Irish Revival upon the Southern Renaissance, this work explores how the latter looked to the former for guidance, artistic innovation, and models for self-invention and regional renovation. Artuso investigates the renaissance trope of female rebirth, as the revivalists often figured cultural, national, or regional regeneration through the metamorphoses and maturation of female protagonists such as Cathleen ní Houlihan, Scarlett O'Hara, and Virgie Rainey. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Minor Literature Comes of Age: A Survey of the Irish Revival and Southern RenaissanceChapter Two: Transatlantic Tara: Irish Maternalism and Motherland in Gone with the WindChapter Three:"A Child of this Century": Rites of Passage in the Friendship and Fiction of Eudora Welty and Elizabeth BowenChapter Four: Anglo-Irish Revivals: Doubling and Defamiliarization in Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day and The House in ParisChapter Five: Black Madonnas and Irish Muses: Odysseys with the Harlem RenaissanceEpilogue Notes Bibliography About the AuthorIndex

Autorentext

Kathryn Stelmach Artuso is an assistant professor of English at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California.

Klappentext

Tracing the transatlantic influence of the Irish Revival upon the Southern Renaissance, this work explores how the latter looked to the former for guidance, artistic innovation, and models for self-invention and regional renovation. Artuso investigates the renaissance trope of female rebirth, as the revivalists often figured cultural, national, or regional regeneration through the metamorphoses and maturation of female protagonists such as Cathleen ní Houlihan, Scarlett O'Hara, and Virgie Rainey.

Inhalt

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Minor Literature Comes of Age: A Survey of the Irish Revival and Southern Renaissance Chapter Two: Transatlantic Tara: Irish Maternalism and Motherland in Gone with the Wind Chapter Three:"A Child of this Century": Rites of Passage in the Friendship and Fiction of Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen Chapter Four: Anglo-Irish Revivals: Doubling and Defamiliarization in Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day and The House in Paris Chapter Five: Black Madonnas and Irish Muses: Odysseys with the Harlem Renaissance Epilogue Notes Bibliography About the Author Index