Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Urban Space
2. Diasporic Space
3. Manic Space
4. Feminine Space
5. Queer Space
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Abbreviations
Biography
Edward O’Rourke completed his PhD in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published on the topics of women in urban space, femme theory, and twentieth-century Irish women's writing. O’Rourke's research interests include postcolonial literature and the representation of mania in the diasporic literature of women writers. He currently teaches at Mount Sackville in Dublin.
“Edward O’Rourke has written a sensitive and lucid analysis of the world and work of Maeve Brennan. Scholarly but never scholastic, his book shows him as one who has the gift of explanation rather than simplification. He has a heightened awareness of the nuances of Brennan’s style along with a sure grasp of the sociocultural realities out of which her writing came. His book will bring this gifted and unusual woman to a new generation of readers.”
Prof. Declan Kiberd, author of Inventing Ireland (1996) and Ulysses and Us (2009)
