Novel Institutions : : Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism / / Mary L. Mullen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Mullen, Mary L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realismWinner of the 2019 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on LiteratureOffers 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Necessary and Unnecessary Anachronisms -- 1 Realism and the Institution of the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Part II Forgetting and Remembrance -- 2 William Carleton’s and Charles Kickham’s Ethnographic Realism -- 3 George Eliot’s Anachronistic Literacies -- Part III Untimely Improvement -- 4 Charles Dickens’s Reactionary Reform -- 5 George Moore’s Untimely Bildung -- Coda: Inhabiting Institutions -- Bibliography -- Index