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Zusatztext [this book is] concerned not just with Irish literature but also with the subtleties of memory and history. Although O'Malley limits his inquiry to writings in English by Protestants, those writings present varied responses to the challenge of representing Irish history so as to suggest the possibility of future stability. Informationen zum Autor Patrick R. O'Malley is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University, where he teaches nineteenth-century British and Irish literary and cultural studies. Klappentext Patrick R. O'Malley explores two competing modes of political historiography that emerge within Irish literature and culture: one that eludes the unresolved wounds of Ireland's violent history; and one that locates its roots in an account of colonial and specifically sectarian bloodshed and insists upon the moral necessity of naming that history. Zusammenfassung Patrick R. O'Malley explores two competing modes of political historiography that emerge within Irish literature and culture: one that eludes the unresolved wounds of Ireland's violent history; and one that locates its roots in an account of colonial and specifically sectarian bloodshed and insists upon the moral necessity of naming that history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: History and Historiography in Anglo-Ireland 2: Owenson's 'Sacred Union': Paramnesiac History in The Wild Irish Girl 3: 'Terror has no diary': Melmoth's Anti-Histories 4: History and Hunger: Boucicault in the Wake of the Famine 5: The 'seething cauldron of the nation': Fighting History in M. L. O'Byrne's Leixlip Castle 6: Bunburying through History: Wildean Paramnesias and Ihe Portrait of Mr. W. H. 7: Modernist Memory and the Irish State
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: History and Historiography in Anglo-Ireland
- 2: Owenson's 'Sacred Union': Paramnesiac History in The Wild Irish Girl
- 3: 'Terror has no diary': Melmoth's Anti-Histories
- 4: History and Hunger: Boucicault in the Wake of the Famine
- 5: The 'seething cauldron of the nation': Fighting History in M. L. O'Byrne's Leixlip Castle
- 6: Bunburying through History: Wildean Paramnesias and Ihe Portrait of Mr. W. H.
- 7: Modernist Memory and the Irish State
Report
The debates present in this study are original, well - conceived, they present a balanced historical and theoretical perspective, and each chapter is supported skilfully by O'Malley's choice of examples and quotations. Robert Finnigan, Irish Studies Review
