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Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature

By Julia M. Wright

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
052186822X, 9780521868228, 0521114594, 9780521114592
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1564900 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Pages
282\282
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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 aspirations informed their work. Their writings express sympathy with the colonised or oppressed people of India in order to unsettle nineteenth-century imperialist stereotypes, and demonstrate their own opposition to the idea and reality of empire. Drawing on Enlightenment philosophy, studies of nationalism, and postcolonial theory, Wright examines fiction by Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan, gothic tales by Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde, poetry by Thomas Moore and others, as well as a wide array of non-fiction prose. In doing so she opens up new avenues in Irish studies and nineteenth-century literature.

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