{"product_id":"anglo-irish-novel-and-the-big-house-hardcover","title":"Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVera Kreilkamp\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a comprehensive study of the ascendancy novel from Maria Edgeworth's \u003ci\u003eCastle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRackrent\u003c\/i\u003e (I800) through contemporary reinventions of the form. Kreilkamp argues that Irish fiction needs to be rescued from the critical assumptions underlying attacks on the historical mythologies of Yeats and the Literary Revival. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploring the uniquely Irish dimensions of colonial and post-colonial societies, Kreilkamp charts the self-critical formulations of a gentry culture facing its extinction--more often and more successfully with comic irony than nostalgia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKreilkamp positions the Big House novels within current debates in postcolonial criticism and theory. She argues that these fictional representations of a beleaguered society provide a complex, nuanced gaze into a hybrid colonial group that distanced itself from the self-aggrandizements of the revivalists. As she examines the gothic, revisionist, and postmodern permutations of an enduring national form, she illustrates the ways ascendancy women transformed conventions of an English domestic genre into political fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer attention to Edgeworth's Irish works, the fiction of the neglected Victorian novelist Charles Lever, and the gothic forms of the Big House by Sheridan Le Fanu and Charles Maturin provide a historical context for later reformulations of the genre by Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane, William Trevor, Jennifer Johnston, Aidan Higgins, and John Banville.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVera Kreilkamp\u003c\/b\u003e is the Josephine Abercrombie Professor of Writing at Pine Manor College. She is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eEire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of Irish Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e She is presently a visiting scholar at Boston College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.38 x 6.37 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702620975411,"sku":"9780815627524","price":87.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WjlHelljdW1VL0NrR2dZQzloUVZHUT09.webp?v=1763312494","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/anglo-irish-novel-and-the-big-house-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}