1st Edition
Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Introduction: Irish Writers and The New Yorker
- Historical and Cultural Contexts
- Parameters
- Methodologies and Critical Framework
Chapter One: A General Survey
- The New Yorker “Fat Fee”
- Literary Connections
- Slow Ending
Chapter Two: The Irish Sophisticates
- The New Yorker, Sophistication, and Middlebrow Culture
- Complicating Irish Stereotypes
- Class Anxiety and Sophistication
Coda: Beyond the Mid-Century
- The New Yorker: From 1980 Onward
- Irish Writers at The New Yorker in the Digital Era
- Conclusion
Biography
Yen-Chi Wu is Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University, Taiwan. He completed his PhD in English, University College Cork, Ireland.
