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Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870 : Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold by Mary Jean Corbett (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521661323
ISBN-139780521661324
eBay Product ID (ePID)1732444
Product Key Features
Number of Pages240 Pages
Publication NameAllegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870 : Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSubjects & Themes / Historical events, Europe / Ireland, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Subjects & Themes / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
AuthorMary Jean Corbett
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN99-086658
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"...impressive scholarship helps to make Allegories of Union a significant contribution to recent critical work attentive to how modern post-colonial theory, with its emphasis on "heterogeneity" and "hybridity," can illuminate 'analogous struggles over meaning in the past.'" Victorians Institute Journal, "...a very timely book that brings concerns regarding gender and postcolonialism to bear on the discourse--specifically political commentary and novels--regarding the relationship between Ireland and England from the 1790s to the 1860s...Corbett's book is impressively lucid..." Victorian Studies
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal828.80932417
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements; 1. Public affections and familial politics: Burke, Edgeworth, and Ireland in the 1790s; 2. Allegories of prescription: engendering union in Owenson and Edgeworth; 3. Troubling others: representing the Immigrant Irish in Urban England at mid-century; 4. Plotting colonial authority: Trollope's Ireland, 1845-60; 5. England's opportunity, England's character: Arnold, Mill and the Fate of the Union in the 1860s; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
SynopsisCorbett explores fictional and nonfictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. She considers the uses of familial and domestic metaphors in structuring narratives that enact the "union" of England and Ireland. Corbett situates her readings of novels by Edgeworth, Gaskell, and Trollope, and writings by Burke, Engels, and Mill, within the varying historical 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., Corbett explores fictional and non-fictional representations of Ireland?'s relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century., 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., Corbett explores fictional and non-fictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. She situates her readings of novels by Edgeworth, Gaskell, and Trollope, and writings by Burke, Engels, and Mill, within the historical contexts that shape them, offering a fresh perspective on important aspects of Victorian culture.
LC Classification NumberPR8807.P64 C67 2000
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