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Novel institutions : anachronism, Irish novels and nineteenth-century realism /

This book examines anachronisms in realist writing from the colonial periphery to redefine British realism and rethink the politics of institutions. Paying unprecedented attention to nineteenth-century Irish novels, it demonstrates how institutions constrain social relationships in the present and l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mullen, Mary L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • pt. 1: Necessary and unnecessary anachronisms : Realism and the institution of the Nineteenth-century novel
  • pt. 2: Forgetting and remembrance : William Carleton's and Charles Kickham's ethnographic realism
  • George Eliot's anachronistic literacies
  • pt. 3: Untimely improvement: Charles Dicken's reactionary reform
  • George Moore's untimely Bildung
  • Coda: inhabiting institutions.