Novel Institutions : Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture)

Mullen, Mary L.

Edinburgh University Press（2021/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474453257
• DDC分類 823.8099415

Full Description

Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realism
Offers 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.

Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction

Part I: Necessary and Unnecessary Anachronisms

Chapter 1. Realism and the Institution of the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Part II: Forgetting and Remembrance

Chapter 2. William Carleton's and Charles Kickham's Ethnographic Realism Chapter 3. George Eliot's Anachronistic Literacies

Part III: Untimely Development

Chapter 4. Charles Dickens's Reactionary ReformChapter 5. George Moore's Untimely Bildung

Coda: Inhabiting InstitutionsBibliography