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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... figures of gender, class, and race, a particular colonial relation emerges as both historically specific and ... figure unironically – or as the only figure – would foreclose investigation of the far more complex family history of ...
... figures of gender, class, and race, a particular colonial relation emerges as both historically specific and ... figure unironically – or as the only figure – would foreclose investigation of the far more complex family history of ...
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... figure with particular relevance for study of Ireland's place in the UK – ''which the concept of the 'post-colonial' has done so much to bring to the fore.''8 If one way of addressing these and related concerns has been to assert that ...
... figure with particular relevance for study of Ireland's place in the UK – ''which the concept of the 'post-colonial' has done so much to bring to the fore.''8 If one way of addressing these and related concerns has been to assert that ...
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... figure that works to establish boundaries even as it erodes them, I also show that recognizing the implication of''race'' in ''class'' enables us to think about these categories together in new ways. I attempt here to rewrite the class ...
... figure that works to establish boundaries even as it erodes them, I also show that recognizing the implication of''race'' in ''class'' enables us to think about these categories together in new ways. I attempt here to rewrite the class ...
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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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