{"product_id":"queering-twentieth-century-irish-womens-writing-uneasy-moderns-9781399547468","title":"Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing: Uneasy Moderns","description":"Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers - Dorothy Macardle, Kate O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane - this book unsettles the conventional narratives of modern Irish culture. Despite attempts to impose a linear narrative of progress, feel-good accounts are clearly inadequate to the realities of contemporary Ireland. Guided by a queer refusal to move on from bad feelings, Naoise Murphy disrupts common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Lingering with unease and discomfort in the work of mid-twentieth-century women writers and the spaces they occupied, this book pays close attention to inadmissible feelings of loss, anxiety, hauntedness and melancholia. By embracing discomfort, it moves towards a less idealising form of queer studies that is more responsive to the complexity of queer history, and offers a new story of Irish culture in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurphy, Naoise:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Naoise Murphy is a researcher specialising in twentieth-century literature and queer studies and has taught at the University of Cambridge, Maynooth University and the University of Oxford.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52039772340498,"sku":"9781399547468","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ce6f9b50-92c9-4618-b0be-2101fbb5ce8d.jpg?v=1771413227","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/queering-twentieth-century-irish-womens-writing-uneasy-moderns-9781399547468","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}