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Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature

From Joyce to Kelman, Doyle, Galloway, and McNamee

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  • © 2008

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  1. Mary M. McGlynn
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Part of the book series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (NDIIAL)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: The Poor Mouth

    • Mary M. McGlynn
    Pages 1-32

  3. “Ye’ve No to Wander”: James Kelman’s Vernacular Spaces

    • Mary M. McGlynn
    Pages 33-75

  4. Barrytown Irish: Location, Language, and Class in Roddy Doyle’s Early Novels

    • Mary M. McGlynn
    Pages 77-130

  5. “Make Out its Not Unnatural At All”: Janice Galloway’s Mother Tongue

    • Mary M. McGlynn
    Pages 131-172

  6. Eoin McNamee’s Local Language

    • Mary M. McGlynn
    Pages 173-194

  7. Afterword

    • Mary M. McGlynn
    Pages 195-196

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 197-236
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About this book

This book argues that the outskirts of cities have become spaces for a new literature beyond boundaries of traditional notions of nation, class, and gender. Includes discussions of Booker Prize winners Roddy Doyle and James Kelman.

Reviews

"A welcome and useful study of a group of writers in need of more complex critical attention. By including both Irish and Scottish writers in the same study-and writers from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland-McGlynn enacts the challenge to national boundaries that her study uncovers. The potential impact of such a work on Irish literary studies is especially strong; too often, Irish literature is only studied within nationalist parameters." - Lauren Onkey, Associate Professor of English, Ball State University

"McGlynn's book is an excellent choice for the series New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature, edited by Claire Culleton. It makes many important moves in this arena, not the least of which is its reconfiguration of what one might call the Celtic fringe, 'with literature as a key crossover" (Maley 205) . . . I am grateful to have this thoughtful and careful work, which in forging yet new ground in this comparative filed of Scottish-Irish studies, brings understudied authors into view and provides an important model for talking about class in contemporary literatures more generally." - James Joyce Literary Supplement

About the author

Mary M. McGlynn is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. 

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