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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... Representing Femininity: Middle-Class Subjec- tivity in Victorian and Edwardian Women's Autobiographies ( ). Her work has also appeared in Criticism, Eighteenth-Century Life, ELH, Studies in the Novel, and Women's Studies. aaaaaa ...
... Representing Femininity: Middle-Class Subjec- tivity in Victorian and Edwardian Women's Autobiographies ( ). Her work has also appeared in Criticism, Eighteenth-Century Life, ELH, Studies in the Novel, and Women's Studies. aaaaaa ...
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... representing the immigrant Irish in urban England around rnid—century 82 4 Plotting colonial authority: Trollope's Ireland, I84.5~186o 114 5 England's opportunity, England's character: Arnold, Mill, and the Union in the 1860s I48 ...
... representing the immigrant Irish in urban England around rnid—century 82 4 Plotting colonial authority: Trollope's Ireland, I84.5~186o 114 5 England's opportunity, England's character: Arnold, Mill, and the Union in the 1860s I48 ...
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... represents and to historicize the 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 ...
... represents and to historicize the 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 ...
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... representing Irishness in the nineteenth century overlap in very significant ways with imperial rhetorics deployed elsewhere, as I believe they do, the character of the historical relation between England and Ireland also makes for ...
... representing Irishness in the nineteenth century overlap in very significant ways with imperial rhetorics deployed elsewhere, as I believe they do, the character of the historical relation between England and Ireland also makes for ...
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... represent the narrative consequences of union as a matter of legitimating inequality in gendered terms. More starkly, the providential narratives governing Trollope's fictions about the Great Famine structurally encode a certain ...
... represent the narrative consequences of union as a matter of legitimating inequality in gendered terms. More starkly, the providential narratives governing Trollope's fictions about the Great Famine structurally encode a certain ...
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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