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Abolitionism
Anglo-Irish people
Antiquarian
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Bogle
British Empire
British literature
Canadian literature
Career
Castle Rackrent
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Chronotope
Colonialism
Colonization
Complicity (novel)
Cosmopolitanism
Cultural history
Cultural landscape
Cultural memory
Cultural nationalism
Disfranchisement
Emigration
English literature
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Evocation
Fiction
Genre
Gothic fiction
Guy Mannering
Historical fiction
Household
Ideology
Imperialism
Irish poetry
Jane Austen
Literature
Maria Edgeworth
Memoir
Modernity
Mr.
Narrative
Neurosis
Novel
Novelist
Nurse's Song
Of Education
On the Eve
Oral tradition
Ossian
Parody
Paternalism
Patriotism
Picaresque novel
Picturesque
Poetry
Politics
Precedent
Publication
Rhetoric
Romance novel
Romanticism
Satire
Scottish Enlightenment
Sentimentalism (literature)
Slavery
Social transformation
Special collections
Superiority (short story)
The Antiquary
Treatise
Utopia
Wealth
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691044804
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 25 May 1997
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This magisterial work links the literary and intellectual history of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Britain's overseas colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to redraw our picture of the origins of cultural nationalism, the lineages of the novel, and the literary history of the English-speaking world. Katie Trumpener recovers and recontextualizes a vast body of fiction to describe the history of the novel during a period of formal experimentation and political engagement, between its eighteenth-century "rise" and its Victorian "heyday." During the late eighteenth century, antiquaries in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales answered modernization and anglicization initiatives with nationalist arguments for cultural preservation. Responding in particular to Enlightenment dismissals of Gaelic oral traditions, they reconceived national and literary history under the sign of the bard.
Their pathbreaking models of national and literary history, their new way of reading national landscapes, and their debates about tradition and cultural transmission shaped a succession of new novelistic genres, from Gothic and sentimental fiction to the national tale and the historical novel. In Ireland and Scotland, these genres were used to mount nationalist arguments for cultural specificity and against "internal colonization." Yet once exported throughout the nascent British empire, they also formed the basis of the first colonial fiction of Canada, Australia, and British India, used not only to attack imperialism but to justify the imperial project. Literary forms intended to shore up national memory paradoxically become the means of buttressing imperial ideology and enforcing imperial amnesia.
Katie Trumpener is Associate Professor of English, Germanic Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.
