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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... 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 ideological contexts that shape them, she ...
... 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 ideological contexts that shape them, she ...
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... imperial power, the poem links the colonized Irish land with the feminine, carrying a fetal body that will never be born into separateness; even as it marks the geopolitical site ''where our past has grown'' ( ), Ulster is itselfa ...
... imperial power, the poem links the colonized Irish land with the feminine, carrying a fetal body that will never be born into separateness; even as it marks the geopolitical site ''where our past has grown'' ( ), Ulster is itselfa ...
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... imperial metaphor suggest that he is thoroughly ''possessed by . . . the atavistic myth he deplores,'' as Elizabeth Butler Cullingford implies?2 Returning to the poem, I find that my interpretation of it depends on how I locate the ...
... imperial metaphor suggest that he is thoroughly ''possessed by . . . the atavistic myth he deplores,'' as Elizabeth Butler Cullingford implies?2 Returning to the poem, I find that my interpretation of it depends on how I locate the ...
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... imperial indeed inhabit us all in various ways, and have at times deafened us to colonial accents. Heaney's uncanny ability to mimic the ''imperially / Male'' colonizer suggests that even as the poem grounds itself in a hierarchical ...
... imperial indeed inhabit us all in various ways, and have at times deafened us to colonial accents. Heaney's uncanny ability to mimic the ''imperially / Male'' colonizer suggests that even as the poem grounds itself in a hierarchical ...
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... imperial expansion. In the post-Union novels by Maria Edgeworth and Sydney Owenson that I consider in Chapter Two, for example, the marriage plot allegorically suggests the ideological need for altering England's historical relation to ...
... imperial expansion. In the post-Union novels by Maria Edgeworth and Sydney Owenson that I consider in Chapter Two, for example, the marriage plot allegorically suggests the ideological need for altering England's historical relation to ...
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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