“Robert Emmet’s Rising of 1803 and the Bold Mrs. Kearney: James Joyce's ‘A Mother’ as Historical Analogue”
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Martin F. Kearney, « “Robert Emmet’s Rising of 1803 and the Bold Mrs. Kearney: James Joyce's ‘A Mother’ as Historical Analogue” », Journal of the Short Story in English, ID : 10670/1.6rfecm
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For years, Joyce’s short story “A Mother” has perplexed readers of Dubliners. Initially, many scholars dismissed it in much the same manner as “Hoppy” Holohan and O’Madden Burke discount Mrs. Kearney at the story's end. The tale's focus was quite clear to these early critics: Kathleen Kearney's mother is a fright--nothing more, nothing less. Self-indulgent and willful, Miss Devlin marries the bootmaker Kearney because the Age, as well as her age, invests a certain urgency. She must soon marry...