En-gendering the nation : gender-bending and nationalism in Miles Franklin's 'My brilliant career' and Emily Lawless's 'Grania: The story of an Island' Devlin-Glass, Frances 2011, En-gendering the nation : gender-bending and nationalism in Miles Franklin's 'My brilliant career' and Emily Lawless's 'Grania: The story of an Island', Australasian journal of Irish studies, vol. 11, 2008-2009, pp. 73-85. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title En-gendering the nation : gender-bending and nationalism in Miles Franklin's 'My brilliant career' and Emily Lawless's 'Grania: The story of an Island' Author(s) Devlin-Glass, Frances Journal name Australasian journal of Irish studies Volume number 11 Season 2008-2009 Start page 73 End page 85 Total pages 13 Publisher Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand Place of publication Melbourne, Vic. Publication date 2011 ISSN 1837-1094 Summary Writing in the lee of first-wave feminism and in an era of nation-invention, the Irish Ascendancy novelist, Emily Lawless, and the aggressively Australian Miles Franklin (of Irish, English and German extraction and coming from families who were pastoralists) wrote novels of adolescence, respectively, 'Grania: the Story of an Island' (1892) and 'My Brilliant Career' (1901). Similar and different in many ways, they both wrote as women and self-consciously inserted themselves into nation-inscribing projects with an eye to overseas readerships, and they played fast and loose with class. Curiously, both contributed to the process of transforming 'nowhere-places' into iconic nationalist places: Franklin put the Monaro on the map (a region that was a nationalist icon before the 'Red Centre' usurped its place); and Lawless wrote in ethnographic ways about the Aran Islands more than a decade before J.M. Synge tramped westward in search of the 'Peasant Quality', so beloved of the Abbey Theatre playwrights and audiences. Most compellingly, they wrote of the near-pathologies of masculinities within nationalist agendas, and of marriage and sexuality. This article examines the novels comparatively and contrastively and asks uncomfortable questions about why and how their interventions were untimely. Language eng Field of Research 200503 British and Irish Literature Socio Economic Objective 950203 Languages and Literature HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2011, Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30046580 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 06 Aug 2012, 14:36:42 EST Mon, 06 Aug 2012, 14:39:40 EST Mon, 06 Aug 2012, 14:40:52 EST Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 15:07:01 EST Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 15:39:59 EST Wed, 05 Jun 2013, 08:53:21 EST Wed, 05 Jun 2013, 08:53:53 EST Thu, 06 Jun 2013, 13:59:03 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 14:33:34 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 289 Abstract Views, 4 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 06 Aug 2012, 14:36:37 EST by Leanne Swaneveld

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