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

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 pol...

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