Novel Institutions: Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism Contributor(s): Mullen, Mary L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474453252 ISBN-13: 9781474453257 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Philosophy | Movements - Realism |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.83 lbs) 264 pages |
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Publisher Description: Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realism
This 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. |