Irishness and womanhood in nineteenth-century British writing /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tracy, Thomas (Thomas J.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English fiction > Irish authors > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Women in literature.
Irish question.
English fiction.
British in literature.
Roman anglais > Auteurs irlandais > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Britanniques dans la littérature.
Nationalisme dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Question irlandaise.
Roman anglais.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction > Irish authors.
Literature.
Ireland > In literature.
Irlande > Dans la littérature.
Ireland.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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