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Mary Mccarthy, Mary Gordon, And The Irish-American Literary Tradition, Stacey Lee Donohue
Mary Mccarthy, Mary Gordon, And The Irish-American Literary Tradition, Stacey Lee Donohue
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There is a distinct literary canon in the United States, composed of Irish-Catholic-American writers, which requires different modes of criticism or evaluation than other U.S. literatures, particularly the dominant, largely Protestant or Protestant-influenced, American literary canon. In addition, as a recently recognized literary tradition, many women writers have either been ignored or unnoticed because their works do not immediately fit into the evolving criteria of evaluation for the Irish-American literary tradition. My purpose in this study is not to survey the Irish-American literary canon, but to examine two women writers who have not always been admitted to an innately misogynistic …