Boston College Front Row

Women Writers and the Death of Rural Ireland

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Clair Wills speaks on representations of domesticity and female sexuality in the fiction of Irish writers Mary Lavin and Maura Laverty. Wills is a professor of Irish literature at Queen Mary, University of London, and the author of Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry (Oxford, 1993) and Reading Paul Muldoon (Bloodaxe, 1998). Wills is introduced by Marjorie Howes, codirector of the Irish Studies Program and associate professor of English. Speaker: Clair Wills Date: April 10, 2006 Length: 53:53