Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

Thomas Tracy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-35619-1 (ISBN)

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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 often revolved around representations of Irishness, especially Irish womanhood. He maps out the genealogy of this development, from Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent through Trollope's Irish novels, focusing on the pivotal period from 1806 through the 1870s. The author's model enables him to elaborate the ways in which gender ideals are specifically contested in fiction, the discourses of political debate and social reform, and the popular press, for the purpose of defining not only the place of the Irish in the union with Great Britain, but the nature of Britishness itself.

Thomas Tracy

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.12.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-35619-0 / 1138356190
ISBN-13	978-1-138-35619-1 / 9781138356191
Zustand	Neuware