The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland
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- Author: Ina Ferris, University of Ottawa
- Date Published: November 2002
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521814607
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Ina Ferris examines the way in which the problem of 'incomplete union' generated by the formation of the United Kingdom in 1800 destabilised British public discourse in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Ferris offers the first full-length study of the chief genre to emerge out of the political problem of Union: the national tale, an intercultural and mostly female-authored fictional mode that articulated Irish grievances to English readers. Ferris draws on current theory and archival research to show how the national tale crucially intersected with other public genres such as travel narratives, critical reviews and political discourse. In this fascinating study, Ferris shows how the national tales of Morgan, Edgeworth, Maturin, and the Banim brothers dislodged key British assumptions and foundational narratives of history, family and gender in the period.
Read more- First full-length study of the Irish national tale
- Strong contribution to colonial and national studies
- Will appeal to Romanticists in general as well as Irish-studies scholars
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'… almost ten years in the making, but it is certainly worth the wait.' Irish Studies Review
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- Date Published: November 2002
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521814607
- length: 220 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The awkward space of Union
1. Civic travels: the Irish tour and the new United Kingdom
2. Public address: the national tale and the pragmatics of sympathy
3. Female agents: rewriting the national heroine in Morgan's later tales
4. The shudder of history: Irish Gothic and ruin writing
5. Agitated bodies: the Emancipation debate and novels of insurgency in the 1820s
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