Novel Institutions: Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism

Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realismWinner of the 2019 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on LiteratureOffers a new theory of institutions grounded in temporalityOutlines a transnational theory of British realism that emerges from interpreting Irish realist novelsReassesses the pol...

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1. Verfasser: Mullen, Mary L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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Zusammenfassung:Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realismWinner of the 2019 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on LiteratureOffers a new theory of institutions grounded in temporalityOutlines a transnational theory of British realism that emerges from interpreting Irish realist novelsReassesses the politics of realism and the politics of institutionsContains close-reading of realist novels as well as a new genealogy of British realismAdvances a new understanding of the relationship between realism and colonialismThis 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
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
ISBN:9781474453264
DOI:10.1515/9781474453264

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