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Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland »

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Authors: Ina Ferris, Marilyn Butler (Contribution by), James Chandler
ISBN-13: 9780521814607, ISBN-10: 052181460X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Ina Ferris

Ina Ferris is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of The Achievement of Literary Authority: Gender, History and the Waverley Novels (1991) and William Makepeace Thackeray (1983). Her work has also appeared in essay collections and in journals such as Modern Language Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Studies in Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Fiction.

Book Synopsis

First full-length study of the national tale, a genre articulating Irish grievances to English readers in the early nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: the awkward space of Union1
1Civic travels: the Irish tour and the new United Kingdom18
2Public address: the national tale and the pragmatics of sympathy46
3Female agents: rewriting the national heroine in Morgan's later fiction74
4The shudder of history: Irish Gothic and ruin writing102
5Agitated bodies: the Emancipation debate and novels of insurgency in the 1820s127
Notes155
Bibliography185
Index201

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