Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing, 1790-1870 : politics, history, and the family from Edgeworth and to Arnold

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Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing, 1790-1870 : politics, history, and the family from Edgeworth and to Arnold

Title remainder

politics, history, and the family from Edgeworth and to Arnold

Statement of responsibility

Mary Jean Corbett

Creator

• Corbett, Mary Jean, 1962-

Subject

• English fiction -- Irish authors | History and criticism
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English prose literature -- Irish authors | History and criticism
• Families in literature
• Imperialism in literature
• Ireland -- In literature
• England -- Relations -- Ireland
• Ireland -- Relations -- England
• Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Literature and history -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
• Nationalism in literature
• Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
• Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

"In this book, Mary Jean Corbett explores fictional and non-fictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. Through postcolonial and feminist theory, she considers how cross-cultural contact is negotiated using tropes of marriage and family, and demonstrates how familial rhetoric sometimes works to sustain, sometimes to contest, the structures of colonial inequality. Analyzing novels by Edgeworth, Owenson, Gaskell, Kingsley, and Trollope as well as writings by Burke, Carlyle, Engels, Arnold, and Mill, Corbett argues that the colonizing imperative for "reforming" the Irish in an age of imperial expansion constitutes a largely unrecognized but crucial element in the rhetorical project of English nation-formation. By situating her readings within the varying historical and ideological contexts that shape them, she revises the critical orthodoxies surrounding colonial discourse that currently prevail in Irish and English studies, and offers a fresh perspective on important aspects of Victorian culture."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

828/.80932417

Index

index present

LC call number

PR8807.P64

LC item number

C67 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography