Ireland, India, and nationalism in nineteenth-century literature
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Ireland, India, and nationalism in nineteenth-century literature
(Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 55)
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Ireland, India, and nationalism in 19th-century literature
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-264) and index
digitally printed version 2009
paperback ed: 23 cm
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In this innovative study Julia M. Wright addresses rarely asked questions: how and why does one colonized nation write about another? Wright focuses on the way nineteenth-century Irish writers wrote about India, showing how their own experience of colonial subjection and unfulfilled national aspirations informed their work. Their writings express sympathy with the colonised or oppressed people of India in order to unsettle nineteenth-century imperialist stereotypes, and demonstrate their own opposition to the idea and reality of empire. Drawing on Enlightenment philosophy, studies of nationalism, and postcolonial theory, Wright examines fiction by Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan, gothic tales by Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde, poetry by Thomas Moore and others, as well as a wide array of non-fiction prose. In doing so she opens up new avenues in Irish studies and nineteenth-century literature.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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