Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing.

By: Tracy, Thomas, ProfessorMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Abingdon : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2009Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (205 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780754693062Subject(s): English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | Irish question | National characteristics, British, in literature | National characteristics, Irish, in literature | Nationalism in literature | Women in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British WritingDDC classification: 823.8 LOC classification: PR8807.N37 -- T73 2008ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 A Long Conversation -- Introduction -- Discourse and the Novel -- 2 The Mild Irish Girl: Domesticating the National Tale -- The Wild Irish Girl: Owenson -- The Mild Irish Girl: Edgeworth -- 3 Ormond: From "The Disease of Power and Wealth" to "The Condition of Irishness" -- Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars -- Exclusive Inclusion: Ormond -- "The Pistol Accidentally Went Off": Ormond and Familial Politics -- Curing "The Condition of Irishness" -- 4 Transcending Ascendancy: Florence McCarthy -- Contesting Edgeworth -- "Neither in Command nor Supplication" -- 5 Policing "The Chief Nests of Disease and Broils" -- Introduction -- Inferior Irish Criminality -- The Migratory Thesis -- "Women Half-Naked Carrying Brickbats and Stones" -- 6 Kay, Engels, and the Condition of the Irish -- Introduction -- "Banish the Jealous Suspicion with Which One Order Regards Another" -- The Two Nations: Working Class and Bourgeoisie -- 7 British National Identity and Irish Anti-Domesticity in Pre-Famine British Literature and Criticism -- Introduction -- Class Hysteria: Croker -- Happy Beef and Pudding: Thackeray's Anti-Romance -- Anti-Domesticity and the Return of the Colonial Repressed: Barry Lyndon -- Female Strength as a Demonic Force: Irish Anti-Domesticity and the British Middle Class -- 8 A Comic Plot with a Tragic Ending: The Macdermots of Ballycloran -- Trollope and Ireland -- The Seduction Plot -- Striking at the Corrupt Power Structure, not Union -- 9 The Sacred, the Profane, and the Middle Class: Thackeray's Post-Famine Criticism and Pendennis -- "Why Am I to Keep an Irishman?" -- "Irish Beggary and Ruin Follows the March of Our History" -- Mythic Nation-building: Pendennis -- 10 Allegory for the End of Union: Trollope's An Eye for an Eye -- Seduction Plot: Suite -- Unimagined Community -- Bibliography.
Works Cited: Primary Sources -- Works Cited: Secondary Sources -- Further Reading -- Index.
Summary: Using Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl as his point of departure, Thomas J. Tracy argues that nineteenth-century debates over what constitutes British national identity often revolved around representations of Irishness, especially Irish womanhood. He maps the genealogy of this development in fiction, political discourse, and the popular press, from Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent through Trollope's Irish novels, focusing on the pivotal period from 1806 through the 1870s.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 A Long Conversation -- Introduction -- Discourse and the Novel -- 2 The Mild Irish Girl: Domesticating the National Tale -- The Wild Irish Girl: Owenson -- The Mild Irish Girl: Edgeworth -- 3 Ormond: From "The Disease of Power and Wealth" to "The Condition of Irishness" -- Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars -- Exclusive Inclusion: Ormond -- "The Pistol Accidentally Went Off": Ormond and Familial Politics -- Curing "The Condition of Irishness" -- 4 Transcending Ascendancy: Florence McCarthy -- Contesting Edgeworth -- "Neither in Command nor Supplication" -- 5 Policing "The Chief Nests of Disease and Broils" -- Introduction -- Inferior Irish Criminality -- The Migratory Thesis -- "Women Half-Naked Carrying Brickbats and Stones" -- 6 Kay, Engels, and the Condition of the Irish -- Introduction -- "Banish the Jealous Suspicion with Which One Order Regards Another" -- The Two Nations: Working Class and Bourgeoisie -- 7 British National Identity and Irish Anti-Domesticity in Pre-Famine British Literature and Criticism -- Introduction -- Class Hysteria: Croker -- Happy Beef and Pudding: Thackeray's Anti-Romance -- Anti-Domesticity and the Return of the Colonial Repressed: Barry Lyndon -- Female Strength as a Demonic Force: Irish Anti-Domesticity and the British Middle Class -- 8 A Comic Plot with a Tragic Ending: The Macdermots of Ballycloran -- Trollope and Ireland -- The Seduction Plot -- Striking at the Corrupt Power Structure, not Union -- 9 The Sacred, the Profane, and the Middle Class: Thackeray's Post-Famine Criticism and Pendennis -- "Why Am I to Keep an Irishman?" -- "Irish Beggary and Ruin Follows the March of Our History" -- Mythic Nation-building: Pendennis -- 10 Allegory for the End of Union: Trollope's An Eye for an Eye -- Seduction Plot: Suite -- Unimagined Community -- Bibliography.

Works Cited: Primary Sources -- Works Cited: Secondary Sources -- Further Reading -- Index.

Using Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl as his point of departure, Thomas J. Tracy argues that nineteenth-century debates over what constitutes British national identity often revolved around representations of Irishness, especially Irish womanhood. He maps the genealogy of this development in fiction, political discourse, and the popular press, from Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent through Trollope's Irish novels, focusing on the pivotal period from 1806 through the 1870s.

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