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Author Mullen, Mary L., author.

Title Novel institutions : anachronism, Irish novels and nineteenth-century realism / Mary L. Mullen.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- pt. 1: Necessary and unnecessary anachronisms : Realism and the institution of the Nineteenth-century novel -- pt. 2: Forgetting and remembrance : William Carleton's and Charles Kickham's ethnographic realism -- George Eliot's anachronistic literacies -- pt. 3: Untimely improvement: Charles Dicken's reactionary reform -- George Moore's untimely Bildung -- Coda: inhabiting institutions.
Summary 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. -- Publisher description.
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Subject English fiction -- Irish authors -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Irish authors.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Realism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 1474453244 9781474453240 (OCoLC)1085152409
ISBN 9781474453264 (electronic book)
1474453260 (electronic book)
1474453244
9781474453240
1474453244
9781474453240
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