Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold

✍ Scribed by Mary Jean Corbett

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Corbett explores fictional and nonfictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. She considers the uses of familial and domestic metaphors in structuring narratives that enact the ''union'' of England and Ireland. Corbett situates her readings of novels by Edgeworth, Gaskell, and Trollope, and writings by Burke, Engels, and Mill, within the varying historical contexts that shape them. She revises the critical orthodoxies surrounding colonial discourse that currently prevail in Irish and English studies, and offers a fresh perspective on important aspects of Victorian culture.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
CHAPTER ONE Public affections and familial politics: Burke, Edgeworth, and Ireland in the 1790s......Page 33
CHAPTER TWO Allegories of prescription: engendering Union in Owenson and Edgeworth......Page 63
CHAPTER THREE Troubling others: representing the immigrant Irish in urban England around mid-century......Page 94
CHAPTER FOUR Plotting colonial authority: Trollope’s Ireland, 1845-1860......Page 126
CHAPTER FIVE England’s opportunity, England’s character: Arnold, Mill, and the Union in the 1860s......Page 160
Afterword......Page 194
INTRODUCTION......Page 198
1 PUBLIC AFFECTIONS AND FAMILIAL POLITICS: BURKE, EDGEWORTH, AND IRELAND IN THE 1790S......Page 200
2 ALLEGORIES OF PRESCRIPTION: ENGENDERING UNION IN OWENSON AND EDGEWORTH......Page 205
3 TROUBLING OTHERS: REPRESENTING THE IMMIGRANT IRISH IN URBAN ENGLAND AROUND MID-CENTURY......Page 209
4 PLOTTING COLONIAL AUTHORITY: TROLLOPE'S IRELAND, 1845-1860......Page 214
5 ENGLAND'S OPPORTUNITY, ENGLAND'S CHARACTER: ARNOLD, MILL, AND THE UNION IN THE 1860S......Page 218
AFTERWORD......Page 223
Bibliography......Page 224
Index......Page 237