A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790 1829

Autorentext

Claire Connolly is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University.

Klappentext

A fresh account of Irish Romanticism and the Irish novel in turbulent political times.

Zusammenfassung
A new cultural history of the Irish Romantic novel in the turbulent decades of the 1790s-1820s. Drawing on rich archives of history and fiction, Claire Connolly presents new interpretations of the novels and explores important links between fiction and politics at this formative period of Irish history.

Inhalt

Preface; 1. Introduction: fact and fiction; 2. Landscape and map; 3. Love and marriage; 4. Catholics and Protestants; 5. Dead and alive.