Description |
1 online resource. |
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Series |
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
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Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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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. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
English fiction -- Irish authors -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- Irish authors. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Realism in literature.
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Realism in literature. |
Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 1474453244 9781474453240 (OCoLC)1085152409 |
ISBN |
9781474453264 (electronic book) |
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1474453260 (electronic book) |
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1474453244 |
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9781474453240 |
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1474453244 |
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9781474453240 |
Standard No. |
9781474453240 |
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