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Author:

Mullen, Mary L., author.

Title:

Novel institutions : anachronism, Irish novels and nineteenth-century realism / Mary L. Mullen.

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xi, 252 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1800-1899
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century--History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
English fiction--Irish authors.
Realism in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-237) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Pt. 1: Necessary and unnecessary anachronisms : Realism and the institution of the Nineteenth-century novel -- Pt. 2: Forgetting and remembrance : William Carleton's and Charles Kickham's ethnographic realism -- George Eliot's anachronistic literacies -- Pt. 3: Untimely improvement: Charles Dicken's reactionary reform -- George Moore's untimely Bildung -- Coda: inhabiting institutions.

Summary:

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. -- Publisher description.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

ISBN:

9781474453240
1474453244

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1085152409

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)