Books by Ellen McWilliams

Individual chapters engage in detail with questions central to the social or literary history of Irish women in North America and pay special attention to the following: discourses of Irish femininity in twentieth-century American and Canadian literature;

Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction examines how contemporary Irish authors have taken up the history of the Irish woman migrant. It situates these writers' work in relation to larger discourses of exile in the Irish literary tradition and examines how they engage with the complex history of Irish emigration.

Examining Margaret Atwood's work in the context of the complex history of the "Bildungsroman", this title explores how the genre has been appropriated by women writers in the second half of the twentieth century.