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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777721903321

Autore

Tracy Thomas

Titolo

Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing / / Thomas Tracy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-003-06343-8

1-138-35619-0

1-351-15527-X

9780838687985

1-351-15528-8

1-351-15526-1

1-282-09177-8

9786612091773

0-7546-9306-6

Edizione

[1st.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

823.80935299162

823/.80935817

Soggetti

English fiction - Irish authors - History and criticism

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

National characteristics, Irish, in literature

National characteristics, British, in literature

Nationalism in literature

Women in literature

Irish question

Ireland In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 A Long Conversation; 2 The Mild Irish Girl: Domesticating the National Tale; 3 Ormond: From "The Disease of Power and Wealth" to "The Condition of Irishness"; 4 Transcending Ascendancy: Florence McCarthy; 5 Policing "The Chief Nests of Disease and Broils"; 6 Kay, Engels, and the Condition of the



Irish; 7 British National Identity and Irish Anti-Domesticity in Pre-Famine British Literature and Criticism; 8 A Comic Plot with a Tragic Ending: The Macdermots of Ballycloran

9 The Sacred, the Profane, and the Middle Class: Thackeray's Post-Famine Criticism and Pendennis 10 Allegory for the End of Union: Trollope's An Eye for an Eye; Bibliography; Works Cited: Primary Sources; Works Cited: Secondary Sources; Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl as his point of departure, Thomas J. Tracy argues that nineteenth-century debates over what constitutes British national identity often revolved around representations of Irishness, especially Irish womanhood. He maps the genealogy of this development in fiction, political discourse, and the popular press, from Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent through Trollope's Irish novels, focusing on the pivotal period from 1806 through the 1870's.