Author: John JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
An Impartial Narrative of the Most Important Engagements
Author: John JonesIreland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Author: Julia M. WrightPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113946101X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
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.
The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson
Author: Susan B. EgenolfPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351147706
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Even as Romantic-period authors asserted the importance of telling the unvarnished truth, novelists were deploying narrative glossing in particularly sophisticated forms. The author examines the artistic craft and political engagement of three major women novelists-Elizabeth Hamilton, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson-whose self-conscious use of glosses facilitated their critiques of politics and society. All three writers employed devices such as prefaces and editorial notes, as well as alternative media, especially painting and drama, to comment on the narrative. The effect of these disparate media, the author argues, is to call the reader's attention away from the narrative itself. That is, such glossing or 'varnishing' creates narrative ruptures that offer the reader a glimpse of the process of fictional structuring and often reveal the novel's indebtedness to a particular historical moment. In spite, or perhaps because, of their being gendered feminine in eighteenth-century rhetorical commentary, therefore, these glosses allow women writers to participate in 'masculine' discussions outside the conventional domestic sphere. Informed by a wide range of archival texts and examples from the visual arts, and highlighting the 1798 Irish Rebellion as a major event in Irish and British Romantic writing, the author's study offers a new interdisciplinary reading of gendered and political responses to key events in the history of Romanticism.
The People's Rising
Author: Daniel GahanPublisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717159159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
The Wexford Rising of 1798 was the most bloody campaign in Irish history since the Williamite wars. In little than a month, over 30,000 people died. The Rising, which had been launched on a tide of revolutionary optimism, ended in slaughter. After this, the first republican revolt, Irish history was changed forever.
Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia
Author: American Catholic Historical Society of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys
Author: (Lady Morgan) Sydney OwensonPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 177048390X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys is a fast-paced tale of political intrigue and aristocratic vanity—a romp through 1793 Dublin as Ireland pitches towards the United Irishmen Uprising of 1798. It follows Murrogh O’Brien as he tries to find his way between his nostalgic father, the politically savvy Irish-Italian nun Beavoin O’Flaherty, the dashing flirt, Lady Knocklofty, the idealistic United Irishmen, and his comically old-fashioned aunts, only to be caught up in a sweep of arrests and revelations in the novel’s dramatic fourth volume. The O’Briens’ original footnotes and authorial digressions detail the failure of colonial policy in Ireland, contributing to the novel’s long-standing reputation as a credible historical account of the turbulent 1790s. This Broadview Edition includes extensive historical documents on Irish politics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as a selection of contemporary reviews of The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys.
Remembering the Year of the French
Author: Guy BeinerPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299218249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Delving into the folk history found in Ireland's oral traditions, this work reveals alternate visions of the Irish past and brings into focus the vernacular histories, folk commemorative practices, and negotiations of memory that have gone unnoticed by historians.
An Impartial Narrative of Each Engagement which Took Place Between His Majesty's Forces and the Rebels, During the Irish Rebellion, 1798
Author: John Jones (of Dublin.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Irisleabhar Na Gaedhilge
Author: Mere Irish & Fíor-Ghael
Author: J. Th. LeerssenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027279152
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
The aim of this investigation is to reconsider the cultural confrontation between England and Ireland from a new methodological perspective, and to trace how this confrontation resulted in a particular notion, literary as well as political, of Irish nationality.