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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corbett, Mary Jean, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English prose literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

Politics and literature--Ireland--History--19th century.

Politics and literature.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and history--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and history.

Literature and history--Ireland--History--19th century.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Families in literature.

Ireland--Intellectual life--19th century.

Ireland.

Ireland--Relations--England.

England--Relations--Ireland.

England.

Ireland--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Allegories of Union in Irish & English Writing, 1790-1870

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

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 through 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 rhetorical 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.

Contents:

Public affections and familial politics: Burke, Edgeworth, and Ireland in the 1790s

Allegories of prescription: engendering Union in Owenson and Edgeworth

Troubling others: representing the immigrant Irish in urban England around mid-century

Plotting colonial authority: Trollope's Ireland, 1845-1860

England's opportunity, England's character: Arnold, Mill, and the Union in the 1860s.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-224) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11810-7

1-280-15454-3

0-511-11800-7

0-511-01866-5

0-511-15610-3

0-511-30403-X

0-511-48476-3

0-511-04870-X

OCLC:

559725468