Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature

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ID19926682
AuthorsJulia M Wright (Dalhousie University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Publication date2007-04-19
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueIreland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511581335
OpenAlexW4302394686
Open LibraryOL22750995M
ISBN9780511581335
LanguageEN
Citations received17

In this innovative study Julia M. Wright addresses rarely asked questions: how and why does one colonized nation write about another? Wright focuses on the way nineteenth-century Irish writers wrote about India, showing how their own experience of colonial subjection and unfulfilled national aspirations informed their work. Their writings express sympathy with the colonised or oppressed people of India in order to unsettle nineteenth-century imperialist stereotypes, and demonstrate their own opposition to the idea and reality of empire. Drawing on Enlightenment philosophy, studies of nationalism, and postcolonial theory, Wright examines fiction by Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan, gothic tales by Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde, poetry by Thomas Moore and others, as well as a wide array of non-fiction prose. In doing so she opens up new avenues in Irish studies and nineteenth-century literature

Ancient history · Art · Art history · British Empire · Colonialism · Empire · Enlightenment · Irish · Literature · Nationalism · Opposition (politics) · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sympathy · Wright · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · 19th century · Colonies in literature · English literature · History and criticism · Imperialism in literature · in literature · India · ireland · Irish Authors · irish authors, history and criticism · Literature, modern, history and criticism · Nationalism in literature

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