Ireland, India, and nationalism in nineteenth-century literature /
In this innovative study Julia M. Wright addresses rarely asked questions: how and why does one colonized nation write about another? Wright focuses on the way nineteenth-century Irish writers wrote about India, showing how their own experience of colonial subjection and unfulfilled national aspirat...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Insensible Empire
- Part I. National Feeling : Colonial Mimicry, and Sympathetic Resolutions
- 1. 'National feeling': the politics of Irish sensibility
- 2. Empowering the colonized; or, virtue rewarded
- 3. Travellers, converts, and demagogues
- Part II. Colonial Gothic and the Circulation of Wealth. 4. On the frontier: imitation and colonial wealth in Edgeworth and Lewis
- 5. 'Some neglected children': thwarted colonial genealogies
- 6. Stoker and Wilde: all points east.
