Novel Institutions: Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism

Mary L. Mullen

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

Novel Institutions

Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism

Mary L. Mullen

In the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474453264

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Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realism

Winner of the 2019 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature
Offers a new theory of institutions grounded in temporality
Outlines a transnational theory of British realism that emerges from interpreting Irish realist novels
Reassesses the politics of realism and the politics of institutions
Contains close-reading of realist novels as well as a new genealogy of British realism
Advances a new understanding of the relationship between realism and colonialism

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Series Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Necessary and Unnecessary Anachronisms
1 Realism and the Institution of the Nineteenth-Century Novel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Part II Forgetting and Remembrance
2 William Carleton’s and Charles Kickham’s Ethnographic Realism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
3 George Eliot’s Anachronistic Literacies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Part III Untimely Improvement
4 Charles Dickens’s Reactionary Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
5 George Moore’s Untimely Bildung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Coda: Inhabiting Institutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474453264