Writing the frontier : Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland / John McCourt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCourt, John, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.

Trollope, Anthony.

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882--Criticism and interpretation.

Criticism and interpretation.

Ireland--In literature.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xii, 313 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

The first book-length study of the great Victorian novelist's relationship with Ireland, the country which became his second home and was the location of his first personal and professional success. It offers an in-depth exploration of Trollope's time in Ireland as a rising Post Office official, contextualising his considerable output of Irish novels and short stories and his ongoing interest in the country, its people, and its always complicated relationship with Britain. Trollope's Irish novels were long neglected but are vital to any understanding of his entire oeuvre and when given their just place alter our overall view of the writer and his take on the world. Uniquely among his fellow English novelists, Trollope consciously occupied a mediating position, believing he knew Ireland better than any other Englishman and better than most Irishmen and used his novels to represent that Ireland to an English public. Trollope's Irish works constitute a vital and distinct group of works, add significantly to our vision of the writer, change the prevalent view that he is always safe and "English", and represent a rich and underestimated contribution to the canon of the nineteenth century Irish novel tout court, complicating the sometimes arbitrary divisions that are drawn between the English and the Irish traditions.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland 1

2 Questions of Justice in the Early Irish Novels 54

3 Trollope and the Famine 96

4 A Question of Character-The Many Lives of Phineas Finn 138

5 Gentlemen Priests and Rebellious Curates: Trollope's Irish Catholic Clergy 175

6 Problems of Form: Trollope's Irish Short Stories 202

7 Trollope's Irish English 222

8 Countering Rebellion 235

9 Afterword: Irish Letters 276.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 287-303.

ISBN:

9780198729600

019872960X

OCLC:

908372064