| Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality, and the Second World War Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; Irish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; World War 1939–1945 -- Literature and the war; Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland; Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Taking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II, "the Emergency," Anna Teekell's Emergency Writing asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for writing to be a response to an emergency. ANNA TEEKELL is an assistant professor of English at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. |