A collection of eight short stories about Irish immigrants in America by a New England writer. An introduction discusses Jewett's understanding of the Irish psy

Though the short story is often regarded as central to the Irish canon, this text was the first comprehensive study of the genre for many years. Heather Ingman

This book studies literary regionalism and it shows that one of the ways we imagine the world is through writing and reading about particular places. It explore

In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birt