Novel institutions: anachronism, Irish novels and nineteenth-century realism

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 l...

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Main Author: Mullen, Mary L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2019]
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
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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
Physical Description:xi, 252 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9781474453240