Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realism This book examines anachronisms in realist writing from the colonial periphery to redefine British realism and rethink the politics of institutions. Paying unprecedented attention to nineteenth-century Irish novels, it demonstrates how institutions constrain social relationships in the present and limit our sense of political possibilities in the future. It argues that we cannot escape institutions, but we can refuse the narrow political future that they work to secure. Mary L. Mullen is Assistant Professor of English and faculty member of the Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University.…mehr
Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realism This book examines anachronisms in realist writing from the colonial periphery to redefine British realism and rethink the politics of institutions. Paying unprecedented attention to nineteenth-century Irish novels, it demonstrates how institutions constrain social relationships in the present and limit our sense of political possibilities in the future. It argues that we cannot escape institutions, but we can refuse the narrow political future that they work to secure. Mary L. Mullen is Assistant Professor of English and faculty member of the Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University.
Mary Mullen Assistant Professor of English and faculty member of the Irish Studies Center at Villanova University. She's published articles in Victorian Poetry, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, New Hibernia Review, Cultural Studies, and Victoriographies.
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Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Necessary and Unnecessary Anachronisms Chapter 1. Realism and the Institution of the Nineteenth-Century Novel Part II: Forgetting and Remembrance Chapter 2. William Carleton's and Charles Kickham's Ethnographic Realism Chapter 3. George Eliot's Anachronistic Literacies Part III: Untimely Development Chapter 4. Charles Dickens's Reactionary Reform Chapter 5. George Moore's Untimely Bildung Coda: Inhabiting Institutions Bibliography
Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Necessary and Unnecessary Anachronisms Chapter 1. Realism and the Institution of the Nineteenth-Century Novel Part II: Forgetting and Remembrance Chapter 2. William Carleton's and Charles Kickham's Ethnographic Realism Chapter 3. George Eliot's Anachronistic Literacies Part III: Untimely Development Chapter 4. Charles Dickens's Reactionary Reform Chapter 5. George Moore's Untimely Bildung Coda: Inhabiting Institutions Bibliography
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