The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland

Ina Ferris

ISBN 10: 052181460X / ISBN 13: 9780521814607

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052181460X
• ISBN 13: 9780521814607
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 471 grams

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Synopsis

Ina Ferris examines the way in which the problem of "incomplete union" (generated by the formation of the United Kingdom in 1800) destabilized British public discourse in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Ferris presents a full-length study of the chief genre to emerge out of the political problem of Union: the national tale, an intercultural and mostly female-authored fictional mode that articulated Irish grievances to English readers.

About the Author

Ina Ferris is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of The Achievement of Literary Authority: Gender, History and the Waverley Novels (1991) and William Makepeace Thackeray (1983). Her work has also appeared in essay collections and in journals such as Modern Language Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Studies in Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Fiction.