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)
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.
First full-length study of the national tale, a genre articulating Irish grievances to English readers in the early nineteenth century.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: the awkward space of Union | 1 | |
1 | Civic travels: the Irish tour and the new United Kingdom | 18 |
2 | Public address: the national tale and the pragmatics of sympathy | 46 |
3 | Female agents: rewriting the national heroine in Morgan's later fiction | 74 |
4 | The shudder of history: Irish Gothic and ruin writing | 102 |
5 | Agitated bodies: the Emancipation debate and novels of insurgency in the 1820s | 127 |
Notes | 155 | |
Bibliography | 185 | |
Index | 201 |