Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790–1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to ArnoldCambridge University Press, 2000 M09 14 - 228 páginas 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. |
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... Irish culture of dissent than with a liberal English discourse dedicated to producing ideological fictions through which Irish disaffection from English rule could be rhetorically minimized , managed , or resolved . While ongoing Irish ...
... Irish culture of dissent than with a liberal English discourse dedicated to producing ideological fictions through which Irish disaffection from English rule could be rhetorically minimized , managed , or resolved . While ongoing Irish ...
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... Irish reveals the faultlines within an increasingly class - stratified culture , in that the pres- ence of Irish immigrants in England exacerbates the crisis of the English social body . And in locating the failure of Union in the ...
... Irish reveals the faultlines within an increasingly class - stratified culture , in that the pres- ence of Irish immigrants in England exacerbates the crisis of the English social body . And in locating the failure of Union in the ...
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... Irish family histories over time and across generations - have an especially important place in English writings about Ireland . Because the familial so often operates as a metonym for the social , a broken or " degenerate " Irish ...
... Irish family histories over time and across generations - have an especially important place in English writings about Ireland . Because the familial so often operates as a metonym for the social , a broken or " degenerate " Irish ...
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... Irish questions from English studies , I challenge the ongoing scholarly pro- duction of separate and unequal histories . And in establishing a specifi- cally gender- and race - conscious framework for reading English repre- sentations ...
... Irish questions from English studies , I challenge the ongoing scholarly pro- duction of separate and unequal histories . And in establishing a specifi- cally gender- and race - conscious framework for reading English repre- sentations ...
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... Irish domain remains as yet incomplete . 13 It is to this work that I hope to contribute by bringing postcolonial perspectives to bear on the texts I consider here . While English colonial discourse about Ireland has not been widely ...
... Irish domain remains as yet incomplete . 13 It is to this work that I hope to contribute by bringing postcolonial perspectives to bear on the texts I consider here . While English colonial discourse about Ireland has not been widely ...
Contenido
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Burke Edgeworth and Ireland in the 1790s | 21 |
engendering Union in Owenson and Edgeworth | 51 |
representing the immigrant Irish in urban England around midcentury | 82 |
Trollopes Ireland 18451860 | 114 |
Arnold Mill and the Union in the 1860s | 148 |
Afterword | 182 |
Notes | 186 |
Bibliography | 212 |
Index | 225 |
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Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790–1870: Politics ... Mary Jean Corbett Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics ... Mary Jean Corbett Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
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