Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Author: Julia M. Wright

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-04-19

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 113946101X

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In this innovative study Julia M. Wright addresses rarely asked questions: how and why does one colonized nation write about another? Wright focuses on the way nineteenth-century Irish writers wrote about India, showing how their own experience of colonial subjection and unfulfilled national aspirations informed their work. Their writings express sympathy with the colonised or oppressed people of India in order to unsettle nineteenth-century imperialist stereotypes, and demonstrate their own opposition to the idea and reality of empire. Drawing on Enlightenment philosophy, studies of nationalism, and postcolonial theory, Wright examines fiction by Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan, gothic tales by Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde, poetry by Thomas Moore and others, as well as a wide array of non-fiction prose. In doing so she opens up new avenues in Irish studies and nineteenth-century literature.

The People's Rising
The People's Rising

Author: Daniel Gahan

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Published: 1995-10-01

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 0717159159

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The Wexford Rising of 1798 was the most bloody campaign in Irish history since the Williamite wars. In little than a month, over 30,000 people died. The Rising, which had been launched on a tide of revolutionary optimism, ended in slaughter. After this, the first republican revolt, Irish history was changed forever.

The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835
The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835

Author: Neil Ramsey

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781409410348

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Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.