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Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland

AvRenée Fox,Renée Fox

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century

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Beskrivning

Irish literary studies has long subordinated the nineteenth century to the experimental triumphs of Irish modernism, variously dismissing its achievements as too indebted to British forms to be truly Irish, too transparently rooted in Irish history and politics to be globally or universally relevant, and too aesthetically weak to be worth close formal analysis. Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland challenges these critical orthodoxies, employing new methodological frameworks that expand how we understand the global, racial, formal, periodized, and political scope of nineteenth-century Irish literature. The essays in the collection move fluidly between history and form, archive and imagination, past and present, and Ireland and elsewhere as they re-examine the genres of nineteenth-century Ireland, coin new aesthetic categories, and theorize Ireland’s mobile place in world networks. Focusing as much on how literary criticism has marginalized and delimited nineteenth-century Irish literature as on the new, more expansive literary and cultural histories that this literature catalyzes, the collection argues that the project of re-reading nineteenth-century Ireland challenges accepted methodologies, imperial hierarchies, and narratives of exceptionalism whose reach extends far beyond Ireland itself. Race, Violence, and Form thus not only offers exciting new directions for Irish studies scholarship, but also models an approach to nineteenth-century literary studies that de-emphasizes insularity in favor of global, collaborative, and open-ended imagining.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-03-13
Mått:163 x 239 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781836240310

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Renée Fox is Associate Professor of Literature and Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Mary L. Mullen is Associate Professor of English at Villanova University.

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'This collection exemplifies the combination of consistency across the whole with range and diversity of approach and materials. It demonstrates how dislodging the Irish novel (and Irish culture and history) from the comparative frame that has been dominated by its relation to English examples proves to be highly productive of new understandings of the genre and of its specifically Irish version’s capacity to circulate and find reception in a global context. Accordingly, it should make a highly valued contribution to the field and represent one of those collections that becomes a touchstone for future critical thinking.' David Lloyd, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction, Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century IrelandRenée Fox and Mary L. MullenRace and the Myth of Whiteness1. Wilde in America: Race and the (Non-) Referent of IrelandPatrick R. O’Malley2. Moving into Chicago’s ‘White City’: Race, Medievalism and White Irishness at the 1893 World’s FairAmy C. MulliganNational Violence3. Shifting Realism: Maria Edgeworth, Novels, and the Irish BullYoon Sun Lee4. Thomas Moore’s Riotous History: The Unbearable Humor of the Memoirs of Captain RockKatarzyna Bartoszyńska5. Reproduction, Maternal Mortality, and the National TaleMatthew ReznicekColonial Intersections and Circulations6. Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth CenturyChristina Morin7. Rocks and Referentiality: Ireland, Palestine, and Emily Lawless’s NovelsMary L. Mullen8. Oscar Wilde, Classical Greece, and Home RuleSimon JoyceViolent Forms9. 'A System of Terror': Ireland, the Gothic Mode, and Marx's Critique of Colonial CapitalismAmy E. Martin10. The Abuses of Nineteenth-Century Genre: Irish Historical Fiction, Then and NowRenée FoxResponsesRace, Violence, Form—and CareTalia SchafferIrish AgentsIan DuncanAfterword: Irish Racial Ambivalence and White Supremacy in the Colonial CaribbeanAlisha R. Walters