ELKE D'HOKER, RAPHAËL INGELBIEN AND HEDWIG SCHWALL; Introduction 1; ANNE FOGARTY; 'I was a Voice': Orality and Silence in the Poetry of Eavan Boland 7; Margaret Mills Harper; 'The Real Thing': Body Parts and the Zero Institution in Ní Chuilleanáin's Poetry 25; Lucy Collins; Joyful Mysteries: Language and Spirituality in Medbh McGuckian's Recent Poetry 41; Niamh Hehir; 'I have grown inside words/Into a state of unbornness': Evocations of a Pre-linguistic Space of Meaning in Medbh McGuckian's Poetry 57; Mària Kurdi
Narrating Across Borders: From Gendered Experience of Trauma to Subject Transformation in Monologues by Irish Women Playwrights 73Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin; 'The seeds beneath the snow': Resignation and Resistance in Teresa Deevy's Wife to James Whelan 91; Faith Binckes and Kathryn Laing; A Vagabond's Scrutiny: Hannah Lynch in Europe 111; Maureen O'Connor; 'I'm meat for no butcher!': The Female and the Species in Irish Women's Writing 133; Eve Eisenberg; 'And then the sausages were ordered': Jewishness, Irishness and Othering in Castle Rackrent 151; Christina Morin
Undermining Morality? National Destabilisation in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne ou L'Italie 169Catherine Smith; 'Words! Words! Words!': Interrogations of Language and History in Emily Lawless's With Essex in Ireland 187; Kathryn Johnson; 'Phantasmagoric Hinterlands': Adolescence and Anglo-Ireland in Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris and The Death of the Heart 207; Tina O'Toole; Unregenerate Spirits: The Counter-Cultural Experiments of George Egerton and Elizabeth Bowen 227; Sylvie Mikowski; Deirdre Madden's Novels: Searching for Authentic Woman 245; Adriana Bebiano
'Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know': The Stories of Chicago May and Eliza Lynch 255Giovanna Tallone; 'Once Upon a Time': Fabulists and Storytellers in Clare Boylan's Fiction 269; Ann Owens Weekes; Towards Her Own History: A Century of Irish Women's Fiction 285; Notes on Contributors 303; Index 309