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Writing Irishness in nineteenth-century British culture

Title
Writing Irishness in nineteenth-century British culture / edited by Neil McCaw.
Publication
Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2004.

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Additional Authors
McCaw, Neil, 1969-
Description
x, 248 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
The representation of the Irish in English canonical fictions was to have been the subject of this monograph. The editor realised the enormity of the task and limited the present volume to an overview of the Irish, Irish authors and Ireland in English literature.
Alternative Title
Writing Irishness in 19th century British culture
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • English literature > Irish influences
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism
  • National characteristics, Irish, in literature
  • 18.05 English literature
  • Civilization
  • Civilization > Irish influences
  • English literature
  • English literature > Irish authors
  • Intellectual life
  • Literature
  • Public opinion, British
  • Nationale identiteit
  • Letterkunde
  • Engels
  • Engelsk litteratur > irländska influenser > 1800-talet
  • Irländska författare > 1800-talet
  • Nationalkaraktär i litteraturen
  • Ireland > Foreign public opinion, British > History > 19th century
  • Great Britain > Civilization > 19th century
  • Ireland > Intellectual life > 19th century
  • England > Civilization > Irish influences
  • Ireland > In literature
  • England
  • Great Britain
  • Ireland
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-240) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Exploding the canons? / Neil McCaw -- Early calls for an Irish national literature, 1820-1877 / Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Joep Leerssen -- The politics of perception: Dickens, Ireland and the Irish / Leon Litvack -- Edward Walsh and nineteenth-century translation / Anne MacCarthy -- Writing the minefield: reflections of Union in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Shirley / Kathleen Constable -- Writing from the outside in: Charles Lever / Andrew Blake -- Some mid-Victorian Irishness(es): Trollope, Thackeray, Eliot / Neil McCaw -- A man of the house: Phineas Finn and the quest for Irish membership / Jane Elizabeth Dougherty -- Britannia's sick sister: Irish identity and the British press, 1798-1882 / Michael de Nie -- The picture of Dorian Gray as Irish national tale / Maureen O'Connor -- Some late Victorian novels and the Irish land question / Carla King, Neil McCaw.
ISBN
  • 0754639479
  • 9780754639473
LCCN
2003065057
OCLC
  • ocm53076226
  • 53076226
  • SCSB-14522979
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library