This book is the first comprehensive study of fiction written by Irish authors during the Victorian age. James H. Murphy analyses the development of the novel in Ireland and examines the work of 150 authors including well-known figures such as William Carleton, Charles Lever, Somerville and Ross, and Bram Stoker in the social and literary contexts of their times. INDICE: 1: Introduction: Approaches to Reading Irish Fiction; 2: The Fashionable Potato: Lady Blessington and W.H. Maxwell; 3: Peasant or Pheasant novelist? The Authority of William Carleton; 4: Ruin through Rollicking: Poor Charles Lever; 5: Sensational Stalwarts: Irish Victorian Novelists in Mid Century; 6: 'Two Nations on One Soil': Land, Fenians, and Politics in Fiction; 7: 'Real Protestantism never Slumbers': Religious and Historical Fiction; 8: Frenzied Form: The Land-War Novel; 9: Grania and her Sisters: New Women Abroad and at Home; 10: Fin de Siècle: Vortex of the Genres; 11: The Lives of the Irish Novelists; 12: Conclusion: Contested Representations; Bibliography; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959699-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés