TY - BOOK ID - 77419275 TI - Ireland, India, and nationalism in nineteenth-century literature PY - 2007 SN - 9780521868228 9780511581335 9780521114592 052186822X 9780511540707 0511540701 0511581335 1107170974 1282155601 9786612155604 0511538898 0511540361 0511538065 0511539738 0521114594 PB - Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Colonies in literature KW - English literature KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Nationalism in literature KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - Irish authors&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - India KW - Ireland KW - In literature. KW - Nationalism in literature. KW - Colonies in literature. KW - Imperialism in literature. KW - Irish authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77419275 AB - 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. ER -