The dandy in Irish and American Southern fiction : aristocratic drag

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Label

The dandy in Irish and American Southern fiction : aristocratic drag

Title remainder

aristocratic drag

Statement of responsibility

Ellen Crowell

Creator

• Crowell, Ellen

Subject

• 1800-1999
• American fiction
• American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Dandies in literature
• Dandies in literature
• Dandy
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• Englisch
• English fiction
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- Irish authors
• English fiction -- Irish authors | History and criticism
• Irland
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
• Literatur
• Southern States
• USA -- Südstaaten

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic book

Language

eng

Summary

This book identifies and interprets the longstanding ideological and aesthetic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South. It offers a rich comparative examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and American Southern plantation literatures and their respective representations of race and nation, gender and sexuality, region and landscape, and the gothic imagination. Pairing major writers from both traditions, including Maria Edgeworth, William Faulkner, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Anne Porter and Elizabeth Bowen, the book shows how this transatlantic dialogue coalesced around questions of power, supremacy, and gentility: writers in Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Southern literary traditions recognized and spoke to each other through the discourse of aristocracy. As the book demonstrates, from the early nineteenth-century onwards, Irish and Anglo-Southern writers conducted a sustained exploration into constructions of aristocracy through the figure of the dissipated, deviant gentleman (or lady): the dandy. By augmenting literary analysis with a variety of historical, biographical, archival and visual materials, including nineteenth-century trade cards, original letters, and twentieth-century photographic portraits, the book offers readers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary illumination of transatlantic modernism

Member of

• Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

823.809352621

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR778.M36

LC item number

C76 2007eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures