Irishness and womanhood in nineteenth-century British writing / Thomas Tracy.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-177) and index.

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.

Using Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl as his point of departure, Thomas J. Tracy argues that nineteenth-century debates over what constitutes British national identity often revolved around representations of Irishness, especially Irish womanhood. He maps the genealogy of this development in fiction, political discourse, and the popular press, from Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent through Trollope's Irish novels, focusing on the pivotal period from 1806 through the 1870s.

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