Irishness and womanhood in nineteenth-century British writing
By: by Thomas Tracy.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780754664482
Subjects: 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; Ireland -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A long conversation; title: The mild Irish girl : domesticating the national tale; title: Ormond : from "the disease of power and wealth" to "the condition of Irishness"; title: Transcending ascendancy : Florence McCarthy; title: Policing "the chief nests of disease and broils"; title: Kay, Engels, and the condition of the Irish; title: British national identity and Irish antidomesticity in pre-famine British literature and criticism; title: A comic plot with a tragic ending : the Macdermots of Ballycloran; title: The sacred, the profane, and the middle class : Thackeray's post-famine criticism and Pendennis; title: Allegory for the end of union : Trollope's An eye for an eye.