Ina Ferris

The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland

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Produktbeschreibung

First full-length study of the national tale, a genre articulating Irish grievances to English readers in the early nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780521110556
• ISBN-10: 0521110556
• Artikelnr.: 26010585

Autorenporträt

Ina Ferris is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of The Achievement of Literary Authority: Gender, History and the Waverley Novels (1991) and William Makepeace Thackeray (1983). Her work has also appeared in essay collections and in journals such as Modern Language Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Studies in Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Bibliography.