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Irishness and womanhood in nineteenth-century British writing /
Using Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl as his point of departure, Thomas J. Tracy argues that nineteenth-century debates over what constitutes British national identity often revolved around representations of Irishness, especially Irish womanhood. He maps the genealogy of this development in...
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2009.
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Table des matières:
- A long conversation
- The mild Irish girl: domesticating the national tale
- Ormond: from "the disease of power and wealth" to "the condition of Irishness"
- Transcending ascendancy: Florence McCarthy
- Policing "the chief nests of disease and broils"
- Kay, Engels, and the condition of the Irish
- British national identity and Irish antidomesticity in pre-famine British literature and criticism
- A comic plot with a tragic ending: the Macdermots of Ballycloran
- The sacred, the profane, and the middle class: Thackeray's post-famine criticism and Pendennis
- Allegory for the end of union: Trollope's An eye for an eye.