Novel institutions : anachronism, Irish novels and nineteenth-century realism / Mary L. Mullen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mullen, Mary L., author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--Irish authors--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Realism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 252 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

This title examines anachronisms in realist writing from the colonial periphery to redefine British realism and rethink the politics of institutions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Editor’s Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Necessary and Unnecessary Anachronisms

1 Realism and the Institution of the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Part II Forgetting and Remembrance

2 William Carleton’s and Charles Kickham’s Ethnographic Realism

3 George Eliot’s Anachronistic Literacies

Part III Untimely Improvement

4 Charles Dickens’s Reactionary Reform

5 George Moore’s Untimely Bildung

Coda: Inhabiting Institutions

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7711-9

1-4744-5326-0

OCLC:

1312727182