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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... relation , and of its attendant use of rape as a metaphor of imperial exploitation . When I teach Heart of Darkness , I must often remind students that to equate the Euroconquest of Africa with hetero- sexual rape is to engage ...
... relation , and of its attendant use of rape as a metaphor of imperial exploitation . When I teach Heart of Darkness , I must often remind students that to equate the Euroconquest of Africa with hetero- sexual rape is to engage ...
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... relation , in that it reproduces that which it seeks to critique . Nations and territories are not women to a feminist reader , however loudly a mascu- linist speaker might proclaim them to be . My positionality would lead me to ...
... relation , in that it reproduces that which it seeks to critique . Nations and territories are not women to a feminist reader , however loudly a mascu- linist speaker might proclaim them to be . My positionality would lead me to ...
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... relations it maps . Finally , then , it is less a matter of misreading than of rereading this poem , of returning to texts that have seemed to say one thing , and one thing only , and listening to them with a different ear , or from ...
... relations it maps . Finally , then , it is less a matter of misreading than of rereading this poem , of returning to texts that have seemed to say one thing , and one thing only , and listening to them with a different ear , or from ...
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... relation consistently assume , rather , that Ireland could be and indeed should be effectively ruled by England . Instituted in 1801 , the Act of Union was understood as necessary for the political security and economic well - being of ...
... relation consistently assume , rather , that Ireland could be and indeed should be effectively ruled by England . Instituted in 1801 , the Act of Union was understood as necessary for the political security and economic well - being of ...
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... relations . At the most general and abstract level , it is easy to see that recurrent patterns of plotting Ireland's relation to England constitute a repertoire that shapes and limits the representation of the Irish and Ireland in both ...
... relations . At the most general and abstract level , it is easy to see that recurrent patterns of plotting Ireland's relation to England constitute a repertoire that shapes and limits the representation of the Irish and Ireland in both ...
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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