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



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Autore: Corbett Mary Jean <1962-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing, 1790-1870 : politics, history, and the family from Edgeworth and to Arnold / / Mary Jean Corbett Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, NY, USA, : Cambridge University Press, 2000
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 828/.80932417
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Ireland Intellectual life 19th century
Ireland Relations England
England Relations Ireland
Ireland In literature
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing, 1790-1870  Visualizza cluster
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
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910829167103321
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