This book identifies and interprets the longstanding ideological
and aesthetic dialogue between the literary imaginations of
Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South.
It offers a rich comparative examination of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century Irish and American Southern plantation
literatures and their respective representations of race and
nation, gender and sexuality, region and landscape, and the gothic
imagination. Pairing major writers from both traditions, including
Maria Edgeworth, William Faulkner, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Anne
Porter and Elizabeth Bowen, the book shows how this transatlantic
dialogue coalesced around questions of power, supremacy, and
gentility: writers in Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Southern literary
traditions recognized and spoke to each other through the discourse
of aristocracy.
As the book demonstrates, from the early nineteenth-century
onwards, Irish and Anglo-Southern writers conducted a sustained
exploration into constructions of aristocracy through the figure of
the dissipated, deviant gentleman (or lady): the dandy. By
augmenting literary analysis with a variety of historical,
biographical, archival and visual materials, including
nineteenth-century trade cards, original letters, and
twentieth-century photographic portraits, the book offers readers a
wide-ranging, interdisciplinary illumination of transatlantic
modernism.
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