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Author Ferris, Ina.

Title The romantic national tale and the question of Ireland / Ina Ferris.

Publication Info. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 205 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 51
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 51.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION The awkward space of Union; CHAPTER 1 Civic travels: the Irish tour and the new United Kingdom; CHAPTER 2 Public address: the national tale and the pragmatics of sympathy; CHAPTER 3 Female agents: rewriting the national heroine in Morgan s later fiction; CHAPTER 4 The shudder of history: Irish Gothic and ruin writing; CHAPTER 5 Agitated bodies: the Emancipation debate and novels of insurgency in the 1820s; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Ferris examines the way in which the problem of 'incomplete union'generated by the formation of the United Kingdom in 1800 destabilised British public discourse in the early decades of the nineteenth century, and the emergence of the national tale as the main genre to address these issues.
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Subject English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Irish authors.
Nationalism and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Nationalism and literature.
Ireland.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Intellectual life.
Nationalism in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Ireland -- In literature.
Romanticism -- Ireland.
Romanticism.
Irish question.
Irish question.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1800-1850
1800 - 1899
Indexed Term Electronic books
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online-Publikation.
Other Form: Print version: Ferris, Ina. Romantic national tale and the question of Ireland. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 052181460X (DLC) 2003271342 (OCoLC)50271626
ISBN 0511042493 (electronic book)
9780511042492 (electronic book)
0511045638
9780511045639
0511120613 (electronic book)
9780511120619 (electronic book)
9780521814607
052181460X