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Novel Institutions

Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvMary L. Mullen

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Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realismOffers a new theory of institutions grounded in temporalityOutlines a transnational theory of British realism that emerges from interpreting Irish realist novelsReassesses the politics of realism and the politics of institutionsContains close-reading of realist novels as well as a new genealogy of British realismAdvances a new understanding of the relationship between realism and colonialismThis 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-05-26
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt404 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Antal sidor264
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474453257
UtmärkelserWinner of American Conference on Irish Literature: The Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature 2019

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Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Necessary and Unnecessary AnachronismsChapter 1. Realism and the Institution of the Nineteenth-Century Novel Part II: Forgetting and Remembrance Chapter 2. William Carleton’s and Charles Kickham’s Ethnographic Realism Chapter 3. George Eliot’s Anachronistic Literacies Part III: Untimely DevelopmentChapter 4. Charles Dickens’s Reactionary ReformChapter 5. George Moore’s Untimely BildungCoda: Inhabiting InstitutionsBibliography

Novel Institutions considers the ways in which institutions configure, regulate and foreclose time in that powerful nineteenth century form we call realism. Mullen’s readings of a largely unstudied cache of Irish novels suggest that we are not obliged to inhabit the futures the dominant novel imagines for us, and that reading time out of joint can offer very realistic hope for changing the institutions that we inhabit.