Object of Love, Subject to Despair: Edna O'Brien's "The Love Object" and the Emotional Logic of Late Romanticism

Schrank, Bernice; Farquharson, Danine

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O 'Brien, E dna

D’hoker¹

2010

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth‐Century Fiction

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As the author of 16 novels, six collections of short stories, a dozen plays, and several works of nonfiction, Edna O'Brien is one of the most prolific Irish writers. Yet, in spite of this steady flow of writing and her wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic, critical recognition has been slow in coming. Until the mid‐1990s critics relegated her work to the realm of “women's fiction” and analyzed it for what it revealed of the author's own life and love affairs. More recently, however, critical reinterpretation of her work has led to its recognition as an important testimony to sociopolitical realities in twentieth‐century Ireland and as a powerful representation of universal human desires and obsessions.

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