Meaney, GerardineGerardineMeaney2014-10-072014-10-072009978-1604133905http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6017Long Day's journey into Night may seem a strange starting place for a feminist analysis of modernism and post-modernism. Yet even the most conservative criticism reads this play as an enactment and embodiment of loss, specifically loss of the mother. That loss is rarely seen in the context of a more general "loss", a cultural loss of legitimacy and authenticity, endemic in and enabling modernism, articulated as "disinheritance" by an Other "coded as feminine."enO'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Long day's journey into nightO'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Criticism and interpretationBook Chapter2014-08-20https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/