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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... racial difference that it helps to construct and on which it seems to depend . Among the nineteenth - century English discourses on Ireland that form the central matter of this book , family thinking in all its varieties establishes a ...
... racial difference that it helps to construct and on which it seems to depend . Among the nineteenth - century English discourses on Ireland that form the central matter of this book , family thinking in all its varieties establishes a ...
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... racial , or cultural difference , or necessarily equate Irish difference with inferiority . Rather , some par- ticular instances within the broader discursive formation I examine take cross - cultural contact , implicitly but not ...
... racial , or cultural difference , or necessarily equate Irish difference with inferiority . Rather , some par- ticular instances within the broader discursive formation I examine take cross - cultural contact , implicitly but not ...
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... racial stereotyping in securing the subordinate status of the colonized – have clear applications in analyzing the discursive production of nineteenth- century Ireland in colonial terms . Yet there is little or no consensus on using ...
... racial stereotyping in securing the subordinate status of the colonized – have clear applications in analyzing the discursive production of nineteenth- century Ireland in colonial terms . Yet there is little or no consensus on using ...
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... racial tropes in configur- ing cross - cultural relations , as in the union - as - marriage plot , I also understand the production of those tropes as part of the discursive apparatus that legitimated empire : I see both gender and race ...
... racial tropes in configur- ing cross - cultural relations , as in the union - as - marriage plot , I also understand the production of those tropes as part of the discursive apparatus that legitimated empire : I see both gender and race ...
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... racial hierarchy in which subject races are assigned the sociopolitical status of women and children within “ the family of man . ” 25 At the same time , the practice of differentiating racial traits supports the superiority of English ...
... racial hierarchy in which subject races are assigned the sociopolitical status of women and children within “ the family of man . ” 25 At the same time , the practice of differentiating racial traits supports the superiority of English ...
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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