Patrick R O'Malley

Liffey and Lethe

Paramnesiac History in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Ireland

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Produktbeschreibung

Patrick R. O'Malley explores two competing modes of political historiography that emerge within Irish literature and culture: one that eludes the unresolved wounds of Ireland's violent history; and one that locates its roots in an account of colonial and specifically sectarian bloodshed and insists upon the moral necessity of naming that history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198790419
• ISBN-10: 0198790414
• Artikelnr.: 47864796

Autorenporträt

Patrick R. O'Malley is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University, where he teaches nineteenth-century British and Irish literary and cultural studies.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: History and Historiography in Anglo-Ireland
* 2: Owenson's 'Sacred Union': Paramnesiac History in The Wild Irish
Girl
* 3: 'Terror has no diary': Melmoth's Anti-Histories
* 4: History and Hunger: Boucicault in the Wake of the Famine
* 5: The 'seething cauldron of the nation': Fighting History in M. L.
O'Byrne's Leixlip Castle
* 6: Bunburying through History: Wildean Paramnesias and Ihe Portrait
of Mr. W. H.
* 7: Modernist Memory and the Irish State