The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland

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Cambridge University Press, 21 Kas 2002 - 205 sayfa
Ina Ferris examines the way in which the problem of 'incomplete union' generated by the formation of the United Kingdom in 1800 destabilised British public discourse in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Ferris offers the first full-length study of the chief genre to emerge out of the political problem of Union: the national tale, an intercultural and mostly female-authored fictional mode that articulated Irish grievances to English readers. Ferris draws on current theory and archival research to show how the national tale crucially intersected with other public genres such as travel narratives, critical reviews and political discourse. In this fascinating study, Ferris shows how the national tales of Morgan, Edgeworth, Maturin, and the Banim brothers dislodged key British assumptions and foundational narratives of history, family and gender in the period.
 

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INTRODUCTION The awkward space of Union
1
the Irish tour and the new United Kingdom
18
the national tale and the pragmatics of sympathy
46
rewriting the national heroine in Morgans later fiction
74
Irish Gothic and ruin writing
102
the Emancipation debate and novels of insurgency in the 1820s
127
Notes
155
Bibliography
185
Index
201
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Ina Ferris is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of The Achievement of Literary Authority: Gender, History and the Waverley Novels (1991) and William Makepeace Thackeray (1983). Her work has also appeared in essay collections and in journals such as Modern Language Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Studies in Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Fiction.

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