CFP: Special Issue of ‘Humanities’ on ‘Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing’

Do you work on representations of unmarried, single, or widowed characters in Irish writing? Your proposals are welcome for an open-access Special Issue of Humanities on the topic of ‘Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing’. In the popular imagination, the practice of celibacy in 19th and 20th century Ireland evokes images of male priests, Catholic moral values, and conservative, even reactionary, politics concerning

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JOURNAL: Connecting Voices – An Introduction to Irish Women Writers’ Collaborations and Networks, 1880–1940

Special issue of English Studies Volume 104 Number 6 October 2023 ‘Collaborations and networks are both the modus operandi and focus of investigation in this Special Issue on Irish women writers between 1880 and 1940. […] The Special Issue platforms the study of Irish women within collaborative sibling, spousal and other partnerships and within the context of movements, organisations, and networks. Our

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CFP: Irish Women’s Genre Fiction

Special Issue of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory Deadline for abstract submissions: Nov 3, 2023 Deadline for paper submissions: May 15, 2024 Guest editors: Christina Morin, Assistant Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland and Ellen Scheible, Professor of English, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA, USA. The friction between the confines

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New Publication from Cork UP: E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross. Female Authorship and Literary Collaboration.

Anne Jamison’s new book on female authorship and literary collaboration explores the remarkable literary partnership of one of the most prominent and successful female writing duos at work in the late nineteenth century; Irish authors, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross. Based on extensive and original archival research, this book attempts to reorient traditional thinking about Somerville and Ross’s partnership as

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