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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... contexts that shape them , she revises the critical ortho- doxies surrounding colonial discourse that currently prevail in Irish and English studies , and offers a fresh perspective on important aspects of Victorian culture . MARY JEAN ...
... contexts that shape them , she revises the critical ortho- doxies surrounding colonial discourse that currently prevail in Irish and English studies , and offers a fresh perspective on important aspects of Victorian culture . MARY JEAN ...
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... context , that " differences in evaluating nationalism ” – or in evaluating the textual history of nation - formation - " may have less to do with which position is right or wrong than with the positionality one occu- pies . ” 3 In this ...
... context , that " differences in evaluating nationalism ” – or in evaluating the textual history of nation - formation - " may have less to do with which position is right or wrong than with the positionality one occu- pies . ” 3 In this ...
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... contexts . My focus on what we typically call hegemonic dis- course , largely but not entirely produced by and for those who were or aspired to be culturally dominant , means that I am concerned less with Irish expressions of resistance ...
... contexts . My focus on what we typically call hegemonic dis- course , largely but not entirely produced by and for those who were or aspired to be culturally dominant , means that I am concerned less with Irish expressions of resistance ...
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... context ; indeed , most of the narratives I work with contest fixities in charting the dynamic processes of contact . Novelistic representations , for example , are both shaped by and sometimes resistant to such metanarratives , as in ...
... context ; indeed , most of the narratives I work with contest fixities in charting the dynamic processes of contact . Novelistic representations , for example , are both shaped by and sometimes resistant to such metanarratives , as in ...
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... contexts for work as a way to open a conversation among them . - my Articulating the relation of Ireland to England in the nineteenth century as colonial has been made possible for me largely through the use of postcolonial tools . In ...
... contexts for work as a way to open a conversation among them . - my Articulating the relation of Ireland to England in the nineteenth century as colonial has been made possible for me largely through the use of postcolonial tools . In ...
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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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