Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781351155281
Subjects: English fiction; Irish authors; History and criticism; National characteristics, Irish, in literature; National characteristics, British, in literature; Nationalism in literature; Women in literature; Irish question; In literature; British in literature; Roman anglais; Auteurs irlandais; Histoire et critique; Britanniques dans la littérature; Nationalisme dans la littérature; Femmes dans la littérature; Question irlandaise; Dans la littérature; Literature
Description: "In The Wild Irish Girl, the powerful Irish heroine's marriage to a heroic Englishman symbolizes the Anglo-Irish novelist Lady Morgan's re-imagining of the relationship between Ireland and Britain and between men and women. Using this most influential of pro-union novels 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 out the genealogy of this development, from Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent through Trollope's Irish novels, focusing on the pivotal period from 1806 through the 1870s. Tracy's model enables him to elaborate the ways in which gender ideals are specifically contested in fiction, the discourses of political debate and social reform, and the popular press, for the purpose of defining not only the place of the Irish in the union with Great Britain, but the nature of Britishness itself."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 A Long Conversation  -- Thomas Tracy; title: chapter 2 The Mild Irish Girl: Domesticating the National Tale  -- Thomas Tracy; title: chapter 3 Ormond: From \  -- Thomas Tracy; title: chapter 4 Transcending Ascendancy: Florence McCarthy  -- Thomas Tracy; title: chapter 5 Policing \  -- Thomas Tracy; title: chapter 6 Kay, Engels, and the Condition of the Irish  -- Thomas Tracy; title: chapter 7 British National Identity and Irish Anti-Domesticity in Pre-Famine British Literature and Criticism  -- Thomas Tracy; title: chapter 8 A Comic Plot with a Tragic Ending: The Macdermots of Ballycloran  -- Thomas Tracy; title: chapter 9 The Sacred, the Profane, and the Middle Class: Thackeray's Post-Famine Criticism and Pendennis  -- Thomas Tracy; title: chapter 10 Allegory for the End of Union: Trollope's An Eye for an Eye -- Thomas Tracy.