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Anna Teekell's Emergency Writing examines the responses of Irish writers to World War II, demonstrating how Irish late modernism emerged with the Free State's political independence. Key writers studied include Beckett, Bowen, MacNeice, and O'Brien.
Review Quotes: "Emergency Writing is an ambitious, wide-ranging, and highly readable account of how mid-century Irish literature responded to wartime neutrality. Surveying the major Irish poetry and fiction of the Second World War, from Patrick Kavanagh to Elizabeth Bowen, Anna Teekell describes a late modernism of ambiguity and anxiety, paradox and purgatorial suspension. This is a fresh and eloquent contribution to the field of modernist studies, and a valuable expansion of our understanding of what it means to write about war." -Marina MacKay, author of Modernism and World War II