Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Two cycles of Irish-American fiction
  • Backgrounds and a habit of satire
  • The profession of novelist: James McHenry and Charles Cannon
  • The famine generation: practical fiction for immigrants
  • Mrs. Sadler and Father Quigley
  • Respectability and realism: ambivalent fictions
  • Mr. Egan and Mr. Dooley
  • A generation lost
  • James T. Farrell and Irish-American fiction
  • Regional realists of the Thirties and Forties
  • "These Traits Endure" : the Irish voice in recent American fiction
  • Liberating doubleness in the Nineties.