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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... means that I am concerned less with Irish expressions of resistance to English rule than with how texts produced for English reading audiences respond to or account for that resistance in the narrative forms and political arguments they ...
... means that I am concerned less with Irish expressions of resistance to English rule than with how texts produced for English reading audiences respond to or account for that resistance in the narrative forms and political arguments they ...
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... mean and on how to use them ? Some scholars maintain , for example , that Ireland never was a colony , while others claim that it was , and still is , at least in part ; on this question , the debate has taken place primarily among the ...
... mean and on how to use them ? Some scholars maintain , for example , that Ireland never was a colony , while others claim that it was , and still is , at least in part ; on this question , the debate has taken place primarily among the ...
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... means acknowledging that the history of colonial Ireland in the nineteenth century can no longer be written in the ... mean that we relinquish the interpretive perspective that postcolonial theories of dis- course and representation can ...
... means acknowledging that the history of colonial Ireland in the nineteenth century can no longer be written in the ... mean that we relinquish the interpretive perspective that postcolonial theories of dis- course and representation can ...
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... means as monotonously monolithic and insensitive to historical change as Eagleton's work in particular may make it seem . By paying close attention to rhetorical matters , and especially to the con- crete workings of plot in both ...
... means as monotonously monolithic and insensitive to historical change as Eagleton's work in particular may make it seem . By paying close attention to rhetorical matters , and especially to the con- crete workings of plot in both ...
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... means for signifying Irish political incapacity , as in the English typing of Ireland as an alternately dependent or unruly daughter , sister , or wife . I recognize as well , however , that the uses and meanings of gender vary across ...
... means for signifying Irish political incapacity , as in the English typing of Ireland as an alternately dependent or unruly daughter , sister , or wife . I recognize as well , however , that the uses and meanings of gender vary across ...
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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