1st Edition
Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing
By Thomas Tracy
Copyright 2009
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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In The Wild Irish Girl, the powerful Irish heroine's marriage to a heroic Englishman symbolizes the Anglo-Irish novelist Lady Morgan's re-imagining of the relationship between Ireland and Britain and between men and women. Using this most influential of pro-union novels as his point of departure, the author argues that nineteenth-century debates over what constitutes British national identity... Read more
Contents: A long conversation; The mild Irish girl: domesticating the national tale; Ormond: from 'the disease of power and wealth' to 'the condition of Irishness'; Transcending ascendancy: Florence McCarthy; Policing 'the chief nests of disease and broils'; Kay, Engels, and the condition of the Irish; British national identity and Irish anti-domesticity in pre-Famine British literature and criticism; A comic plot with a tragic ending: The MacDermots of Ballycloran; The sacred, the profane, and the middle-class: Thackeray's post-Famine criticism and Pendennis; Allegory for the end of union: Trollope's An Eye for An Eye; Bibliography; Index.
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Thomas Tracy
