Understanding Anne Enright
Addressed to both literary scholars and the general reader, Understanding Anne Enright is an introduction to the novels and stories of one of the most original and engaging contemporary Irish writers. It analyses developments in Enright’s writing, comparing the evolution of themes and forms from one book to another, contextualising her fiction, and interrogating the impact of concepts such as postmodernism, post-feminism and post-nationalism on the writing and reading of her work. It particularly follows the evolution of Enright’s treatment of the corporeality of women’s experiences and its correlation with the embodied language of her fiction. Thus, this book shows how Enright’s writing participates in the latest thematic and formal trends not only of Irish or British, but also of Western, literature.
Ana-Karina Schneider teaches English Literature at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. Her publications include the books Critical Perspectives in the Late Twentieth Century: William Faulkner, A Case Study (2006) and Studies in the Rhetoric of Fiction (2015), as well as textbooks and study guides for classroom use. She has also published articles and chapters on the contemporary British novel, the critical reception of various British and American writers in Romania, literary translation, and English studies in Romania. She is Editor-in-Chief of American, British and Canadian Studies and Secretary of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania.
“Anne Enright is one of the most significant contemporary Irish novelists, whose critical esteem was enhanced by her winning the Man Booker Prize in 2007 for The Gathering and has only grown since then. The versatility of her writing, the importance of the themes she addresses, and the centrality of her work to contemporary Irish fiction argue for her importance, a fact also acknowledged by her appointment, in 2015, as the first Irish Laureate in Fiction. It is time that her work be given a serious, full-length critical treatment. This book is that deserved treatment.”
Merritt Moseley
University of North Carolina, Asheville
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