Irish novelists and the Victorian age
By: by James H. Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780199596997
Subjects: English fiction; History and criticism; Irish authors; Literature and society; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaches to reading Irish fiction; title: The fashionable potato : Lady Blessington and W. H. Maxwell; title: Peasant or pheasant novelist : the authority of William Carleton; title: Ruin through rollicking : poor Charles Lever; title: Sensational stalwarts : Irish Victorian novelists in mid-century; title: "Two nations on one soil" : land, Fenians, and politics in fiction; title: "Real protestantism never slumbers" : religious and historical fiction; title: Frenzied form : the land-war novel; title: Grania and her sisters : new women abroad and at home; title: Fin de Siècle : vortex of the genres; title: The lives of the Irish novelists; title: Contested representations.