Novel Institutions
Subtitle: Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781474453240
Subjects: English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century; Realism in literature
Description: 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 limit our sense of political possibilities in the future. It argues that we cannot escape institutions, but we can refuse the narrow political future that they work to secure. -- Publisher description.