Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing
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A01=Thomas Tracy
Anglo-Irish relations
Author_Thomas Tracy
Black Islands
British Cultural Nationalism
Castle Rackrent
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domestic ideology
Earlier Cultural Stage
Edward III
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Gaelic Irish
gender and empire
girl
Good Resolve
Helen Pendennis
Irish Anti-domesticity
Irish Crime
Irish Criminality
Irish Inferiority
Irish Novels
Irish Sketch Book
Kay's Argument
King George III
Lady Dashfort
Middle Class Cultural Ideal
national
national identity formation
Nineteenth Century British Writing
nineteenth-century literature
Radical Nationalist Rhetoric
representations of Irish women in British fiction
Rowan's Assertion
Trollope's Portrayal
Unnatural Ruin
Victorian social reform
wild
Wild Irish Girl
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138356191
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jan 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In The Wild Irish Girl, the powerful Irish heroine's marriage to a heroic Englishman symbolizes the Anglo-Irish novelist Lady Morgan's re-imagining of the relationship between Ireland and Britain and between men and women. Using this most influential of pro-union novels as his point of departure, the author argues that nineteenth-century debates over what constitutes British national identity often revolved around representations of Irishness, especially Irish womanhood. He maps out the genealogy of this development, from Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent through Trollope's Irish novels, focusing on the pivotal period from 1806 through the 1870s. The author's model enables him to elaborate the ways in which gender ideals are specifically contested in fiction, the discourses of political debate and social reform, and the popular press, for the purpose of defining not only the place of the Irish in the union with Great Britain, but the nature of Britishness itself.
Thomas Tracy
