Irish novelists and the Victorian age /
by James H. Murphy.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Notes: | Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from 11A collection items] in the NLI catalogue. Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-293) and index. Physical description: 304 p. ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9780199596997 (hbk.) 0199596999 (hbk.) |
Table of Contents:
Approaches to reading Irish fiction
The fashionable potato : Lady Blessington and W. H. Maxwell
Peasant or pheasant novelist : the authority of William Carleton
Ruin through rollicking : poor Charles Lever
Sensational stalwarts : Irish Victorian novelists in mid-century
"Two nations on one soil" : land, Fenians, and politics in fiction
"Real protestantism never slumbers" : religious and historical fiction
Frenzied form : the land-war novel
Grania and her sisters : new women abroad and at home
Fin de Siècle : vortex of the genres
The lives of the Irish novelists
Contested representations.
Approaches to reading Irish fiction
The fashionable potato : Lady Blessington and W. H. Maxwell
Peasant or pheasant novelist : the authority of William Carleton
Ruin through rollicking : poor Charles Lever
Sensational stalwarts : Irish Victorian novelists in mid-century
"Two nations on one soil" : land, Fenians, and politics in fiction
"Real protestantism never slumbers" : religious and historical fiction
Frenzied form : the land-war novel
Grania and her sisters : new women abroad and at home
Fin de Siècle : vortex of the genres
The lives of the Irish novelists
Contested representations.