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Irishness and womanhood in nineteenth-century British writing, Thomas Tracy

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Irishness and womanhood in nineteenth-century British writing, Thomas Tracy

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-177) and index

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non fiction

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Irishness and womanhood in nineteenth-century British writing

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bibliographydictionaries

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Thomas Tracy

Table Of 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

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