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Irish literary studies has long subordinated the nineteenth century to the experimental triumphs of Irish modernism, variously dismissing its achievements as too indebted to British forms to be truly Irish, too transparently rooted in Irish history and politics to be globally or universally relevant, and too aesthetically weak to be worth close formal analysis. Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland challenges these critical orthodoxies, employing new methodological frameworks that expand how we understand the global, racial, formal, periodized, and political scope of nineteenth-century Irish literature. The essays in the collection move fluidly between history and form, archive and imagination, past and present, and Ireland and elsewhere as they reexamine the genres of nineteenth-century Ireland, coin new aesthetic categories, and theorize Ireland's mobile place in world networks. Focusing as much on how literary criticism has marginalized and delimited nineteenth-century Irish literature as on the new, more expansive literary and cultural histories that this literature catalyzes, the collection argues that the project of re-reading nineteenth-century Ireland challenges accepted methodologies, imperial hierarchies, and narratives of exceptionalism whose reach extends far beyond Ireland itself. Race, Violence, and Form thus not only offers exciting new directions for Irish studies scholarship, but also models an approach to nineteenth-century literary studies that de-emphasizes insularity in favor of global, collaborative, and open-ended imagining.
Contents
Introduction, Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Renée Fox and Mary L. Mullen
Race and the Myth of Whiteness
1. Wilde in America: Race and the (Non-) Referent of Ireland
Patrick R. O'Malley
2. Moving into Chicago's 'White City': Race, Medievalism and White Irishness at the 1893 World's Fair
Amy C. Mulligan
National Violence
3. Shifting Realism: Maria Edgeworth, Novels, and the Irish Bull
Yoon Sun Lee
4. Thomas Moore's Riotous History: The Unbearable Humor of the Memoirs of Captain Rock
Katarzyna Bartoszyńska
5. Reproduction, Maternal Mortality, and the National Tale
Matthew Reznicek
Colonial Intersections and Circulations
6. Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century
Christina Morin
7. Rocks and Referentiality: Ireland, Palestine, and Emily Lawless's Novels
Mary L. Mullen
8. Oscar Wilde, Classical Greece, and Home Rule
Simon Joyce
Violent Forms
9. 'A System of Terror': Ireland, the Gothic Mode, and Marx's Critique of Colonial Capitalism
Amy E. Martin
10. The Abuses of Nineteenth-Century Genre: Irish Historical Fiction, Then and Now
Renée Fox
Responses
Race, Violence, Form—and Care
Talia Schaffer
Irish Agents
Ian Duncan
Afterword: Irish Racial Ambivalence and White Supremacy in the Colonial Caribbean
Alisha R. Walters
