Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

ISBN-13: 9781138356191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 204 str.

Thomas Tracy

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Thomas Tracy