Contents |
A long conversation -- The mild Irish girl: domesticating the national tale -- Ormond: from "the disease of power and wealth" to "the condition of Irishness" -- Transcending ascendancy: Florence McCarthy -- Policing "the chief nests of disease and broils" -- Kay, Engels, and the condition of the Irish -- British national identity and Irish antidomesticity in pre-famine British literature and criticism -- A comic plot with a tragic ending: the Macdermots of Ballycloran -- The sacred, the profane, and the middle class: Thackeray's post-famine criticism and Pendennis -- Allegory for the end of union: Trollope's An eye for an eye. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-177) and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2008042449 |
ISBN | 9780754664482 (alk. paper) |