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Irishness and womanhood in nineteenth-century British writing / Thomas Tracy.
Van Pelt Library PR8807.N37 T73 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tracy, Thomas (Thomas J.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--Irish authors.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
- National characteristics, British, in literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Ireland--In literature.
- Ireland.
- Irish question.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 196 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., [2009]
- Contents:
- A long conversation
- The mild Irish girl : domesticating the national tale
- Ormond : from "the disease of power and wealth" to "the condition of Irishness"
- Transcending ascendancy : Florence McCarthy
- Policing "the chief nests of disease and broils"
- Kay, Engels, and the condition of the Irish
- British national identity and Irish antidomesticity in pre-famine British literature and criticism
- A comic plot with a tragic ending : the Macdermots of Ballycloran
- The sacred, the profane, and the middle class : Thackeray's post-famine criticism and Pendennis
- Allegory for the end of union : Trollope's An eye for an eye.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-177) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780754664482
- 0754664481
- OCLC:
- 261404107
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