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Reading Maud Gonne: Gendered Poetics in the Advanced Nationalist Press

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2002

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This article will situate an argument about elite and mass culture, as well as men's and women's authorship, in a critical examination of the journalism of Maud Gonne, a writer and activist who has languished for too long in the shadows of famous men. Drawing on a new anthology of Gonne's nationalist writings, this study will demonstrate that Gonne's nationalist journalism challenges longstanding scholarly views of Gonne as primarily a muse or adjunct to famous men. When placed within the larger tradition of advanced nationalist journalism, moreover, Gonne's writings represent a copious and complicated literary achievement situated in a long-overlooked genre of the Revival.