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

Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realism This 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.

About the author

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.

Summary

This book examines anachronisms in realist writing from the colonial periphery to redefine British realism and rethink the politics of institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Mary L Mullen, Mary L. Mullen, Mary L. (Assistant Professor of English Mullen, Mullen Mary
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781474453257
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-5325-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies