Novel Institutions - Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism

Informationen zum Autor Mary Mullen Assistant Professor of English and faculty member of the Irish Studies Center at Villanova University. She's published articles in Victorian Poetry , Eighteenth-Century Fiction , New Hibernia Review , Cultural Studies , and Victoriographies . Klappentext Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realismThis book examines anachronisms in realist writing from the colonial periphery to redefine British realism and rethink the politics of institutions. Paying unprecedented attention to nineteenth-century Irish novels, it demonstrates how institutions constrain social relationships in the present and limit our sense of political possibilities in the future. It argues that we cannot escape institutions, but we can refuse the narrow political future that they work to secure.Mary L. Mullen is Assistant Professor of English and faculty member of the Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Necessary and Unnecessary AnachronismsChapter 1. Realism and the Institution of the Nineteenth-Century Novel Part II: Forgetting and Remembrance Chapter 2. William Carleton's and Charles Kickham's Ethnographic Realism Chapter 3. George Eliot's Anachronistic Literacies Part III: Untimely DevelopmentChapter 4. Charles Dickens's Reactionary ReformChapter 5. George Moore's Untimely BildungCoda: Inhabiting InstitutionsBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Mary L Mullen, Mary L. Mullen, Mullen Mary
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781474453240
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-5324-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture; Edinburgh Critical Studies in
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Philosophie, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Realism