Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing, 1790-1870 : politics, history, and the family from Edgeworth and to Arnold / / Mary Jean Corbett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910829167103321
• Autore: Corbett Mary Jean <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, NY, USA, : Cambridge University Press, 2000
• ISBN: 1-107-11810-7; 1-280-15454-3; 0-511-11800-7; 0-511-01866-5; 0-511-15610-3; 0-511-30403-X; 0-511-48476-3; 0-511-04870-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 828/.80932417
• Soggetti: English fiction - Irish authors - History and criticism; English prose literature - Irish authors - History and criticism; Politics and literature - Ireland - History - 19th century; Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Literature and history - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Literature and history - Ireland - History - 19th century; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Nationalism in literature; Imperialism in literature; Families in literature; Ireland Intellectual life 19th century; Ireland Relations England; England Relations Ireland; Ireland In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Public affections and familial politics: Burke, Edgeworth, and Ireland in the 1790s -- Allegories of prescription: engendering Union in Owenson and Edgeworth -- Troubling others: representing the immigrant Irish in urban England around mid-century -- Plotting colonial authority: Trollope's Ireland, 1845-1860 -- England's opportunity, England's character: Arnold, Mill, and the Union in the 1860s.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Mary Jean Corbett explores fictional and non-fictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. Through postcolonial and feminist theory, she considers how cross-cultural contact is negotiated through tropes of marriage and family, and demonstrates how familial rhetoric sometimes works to sustain, sometimes to contest the structures of colonial inequality. Analyzing novels by Edgeworth, Owenson, Gaskell, Kingsley, and Trollope, as well as writings by Burke, Carlyle, Engels, Arnold, and Mill, Corbett argues that the colonizing imperative for 'reforming' the Irish in an age of imperial expansion constitutes a largely unrecognized but crucial element in the rhetorical project of English nation-formation. By situating her readings within the varying historical and rhetorical contexts that shape them, she revises the critical orthodoxies surrounding colonial discourse that currently prevail in Irish and English studies, and offers a fresh perspective on important aspects of Victorian culture.