Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Informationen zum Autor Julia M. Wright is Professor of English at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Klappentext An innovative study of Irish writing about India and imperialism! revealing how one colonised nation writes about another. Zusammenfassung Julia M. Wright examines how nineteenth-century Irish writers such as Maria Edgeworth! Lady Morgan! Bram Stoker! Oscar Wilde and Thomas Moore wrote about India! showing how their own experience of colonial subjection informed their work. In doing so she opens up new avenues in Irish studies and nineteenth-century literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Insensible Empire; Part I. National Feeling, Colonial Mimicry, and Sympathetic Resolutions: 1. 'National feeling': the politics of Irish sensibility; 2. Empowering the colonized; or, virtue rewarded; 3. Travellers, converts, and demagogues; Part II. Colonial Gothic and the Circulation of Wealth: 4. On the frontier: imitation and colonial wealth in Edgeworth and Lewis; 5. 'Some neglected children': thwarted colonial genealogies; 6. Stoker and Wilde: all points east; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Julia M. Wright, Julia M. Wright, Julia M. (Canada Research Chair in Europea Wright
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521114592
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11459-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies