The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
240
Utgivningsdatum
2007-11-01
Förlag
Edinburgh University Press
Illustrationer
7 black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
234 x 163 x 18 mm
Vikt
499 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780748625482

The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction

Aristocratic Drag

av Ellen Crowell, Susan Manning, Andrew Taylor
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2007-11-01
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This book identifies and interprets the longstanding ideological and aesthetic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South. It offers a rich comparative examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and American Southern plantation literatures and their respective representations of race and nation, gender and sexuality, region and landscape, and the gothic imagination. Pairing major writers from both traditions, including Maria Edgeworth, William Faulkner, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Anne Porter and Elizabeth Bowen, the book shows how this transatlantic dialogue coalesced around questions of power, supremacy, and gentility: writers in Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Southern literary traditions recognized and spoke to each other through the discourse of aristocracy. As the book demonstrates, from the early nineteenth-century onwards, Irish and Anglo-Southern writers conducted a sustained exploration into constructions of aristocracy through the figure of the dissipated, deviant gentleman (or lady): the dandy. By augmenting literary analysis with a variety of historical, biographical, archival and visual materials, including nineteenth-century trade cards, original letters, and twentieth-century photographic portraits, the book offers readers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary illumination of transatlantic modernism.
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This is a lively and nuanced account of a fascinating subject. Crowell's readings span topics from the female dandy, to decadence, to the politics of class, nationality, race and gender, offering a fresh perspective on these canonical and lesser known texts. -- Emma Sutton, School of English, The University of St Andrews Crowell recuperates a transatlantic cultural heritage about which too little has been written ! [An] engaging and historically astute study. SEL - Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 This is a lively and nuanced account of a fascinating subject. Crowell's readings span topics from the female dandy, to decadence, to the politics of class, nationality, race and gender, offering a fresh perspective on these canonical and lesser known texts. Crowell recuperates a transatlantic cultural heritage about which too little has been written ! [An] engaging and historically astute study.

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Ellen Crowell is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at St Louis University

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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction:; Sham Grandeurs, Sham Chivalries: Ascendancy and Aristocracy in Ireland and the American South; Chapter One:; Oaks, Serpents, and Dandies: Pseudoaristocracy in Maria; Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent and John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn; Chapter Two:; The Picture of Charles Bon: Oscar Wilde's Trip through; Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha; Chapter Three:; Ferocious Beauty: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Anne Porter,; and the Modernist Female Dandy; Epilogue:; The Dandy Unmasked.

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