Papers by Maureen O'Connor
Victorian Studies, 2011
561 spring 2011 figurations of irishness and womanhood. The central argument, that the representa... more 561 spring 2011 figurations of irishness and womanhood. The central argument, that the representation of irish women plays a special role in the making of Britishness, holds up well. The focus on gender is welcome and especially fruitful in the readings of Edgeworth ...
Women's Studies, 2002
... mous, impersonation was of John Langan, the steward at Edgeworthstown, who provided the inspi... more ... mous, impersonation was of John Langan, the steward at Edgeworthstown, who provided the inspiration for that masterful fictional creation, Thady ... disturbing the allegorical marriage plot of the successful union of Ireland and England): In Ennui, Lady Geraldine almost marries ...
New Hibernia Review, 2006
New Hibernia Review, 2013
Irish Studies Review, 2005
... View all notes. One of the results of this process is the creation of space for theorising th... more ... View all notes. One of the results of this process is the creation of space for theorising the female dandy excluded from earlier ... Ireland, which, as mentioned, is their grand parent hive, they go by a perplexing multiplicity of designations, such as Bogtrotters, Redshanks, Ribbonmen ...
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Maria Edgeworth, writer of lengthy treatises on education as well as novels often accused of an o... more Maria Edgeworth, writer of lengthy treatises on education as well as novels often accused of an overbearing didacticism and marked by the influence of her father's rationalist, Enlightenment ideals, and Oscar Wilde, writer of urbane and sparkling society comedies ...
Journal of Ecocriticism, Aug 30, 2013
From Edna O'Brien's earliest novels, many commentators have noted that desire is at the core of t... more From Edna O'Brien's earliest novels, many commentators have noted that desire is at the core of the narratives. The true irony in such observations lies in their frequently blinkered understanding of what comprises that desire, reducing it to a heteronormative, Barbara--Cartland--style pursuit of "romance." While the characters themselves may think this is what they hunger for, the text inevitably opens up vaster sources of insatiable longing. As Mary Douglas has established, "the body is capable of furnishing a natural system of symbols" (xxxii), and in O'Brien's texts the human mouth, especially when at its most "animal," metonymizes numerous desires, most often balked and even impossible ones, including those that actuate the scene of writing. Mouths are everywhere in O'Brien's novels, licking, yawning, weeping, swallowing, keening, grimacing, biting, shrieking, chewing, singing, speaking, and opening in silence. These mouths give voice to the immaterial, and even animate the inorganic, which, for all of its immateriality, can yet resist manipulation. The inscrutable "inhuman" voice that emerges ultimately reveals "that words themselves are sphinxes, hybrids of the animal, the human, and the inorganic" (Ellmann 77).
Lit Literature Interpretation Theory, 1999
... But it is a likeness of her living cousin Judge Jaffrey, himself an iteration of the formidab... more ... But it is a likeness of her living cousin Judge Jaffrey, himself an iteration of the formidable Colonel.28 The traces of family inheritance multiply ... The brief (un)obtrusive paragraph continues, "It was the Eden of a thunder-smitten Adam, who had fled for refuge thither out of the same ...
Page 1. Page 2. Wild Colonial Girl Page 3. Irish Studies in Literature and Culture michael patric... more Page 1. Page 2. Wild Colonial Girl Page 3. Irish Studies in Literature and Culture michael patrick gillespie series editor Page 4. Wild Colonial Girl Essays on Edna O'Brien Edited by Lisa Colletta and Maureen O'Connor The University of Wisconsin Press Page 5. ...
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European Legacy Toward New Paradigms, 2005
... Balachandra Rajan, Feminizing the Feminine: Early Women Writers on India, in Romanticism, R... more ... Balachandra Rajan, Feminizing the Feminine: Early Women Writers on India, in Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 17801834, ed ... Gayatri Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak? in Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, ed. Patrick Williams and Laura ...
Women S Studies, 2008
... 3 Davies, Stan Gebler. The Trouble with Edna. The Evening Standard, October 19, 1992: 11. 4... more ... 3 Davies, Stan Gebler. The Trouble with Edna. The Evening Standard, October 19, 1992: 11. 4 O'Connor, Joseph. Review of The Light of Evening. The Irish Times, March 3, 2007: 111. 5 Hughes, Sarah. Déjà vu in Dublin and New York: Review of The Light of Evening, The ...
Irish Studies Review, 2004
Law and Human Behavior, 2004
In two decades of research on sexual harassment, one finding that appears repeatedly is that gend... more In two decades of research on sexual harassment, one finding that appears repeatedly is that gender of the rater influences judgments about sexual harassment such that women are more likely than men to label behavior as sexual harassment. Yet, sexual harassment judgments are complex, particularly in situations that culminate in legal proceedings. And, this one variable, gender, may have been overemphasized to the exclusion of other situational and rater characteristic variables. Moreover, why do gender differences appear? As work by Wiener and his colleagues have done (R. L. study attempts to look beyond gender to answer this question. In the studies reported here, raters (undergraduates and community adults), either read a written scenario or viewed a videotaped reenactment of a sexual harassment trial. The nature of the work environment was manipulated to see what, if any, effect the context would have on gender effects. Additionally, a number of rater characteristics beyond gender were measured, including ambivalent sexism attitudes of the raters, their judgments of complainant credibility, and self-referencing that might help explain rater judgments. Respondent gender, work environment, and community vs. student sample differences produced reliable differences in sexual harassment ratings in both the written and video trial versions of the study. The gender and sample differences in the sexual harassment ratings, however, are explained by a model which incorporates hostile sexism, perceptions of the complainant's credibility, and raters' own ability to put themselves in the complainant's position (self-referencing).
Wright/A Companion to Irish Literature, 2010
English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, 2001
English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, 2002
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