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Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement (Hardcover)
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This is the first study of Irish improvement fiction, a neglected
genre of nineteenth-century literary, social, and political
history. It shows how the fiction of Mary Leadbeater, Charles
Bardin, Martin Doyle, and William Carleton attempted to lure the
reader away from popular genres such as fantasy, romance, and
"radical" political tracts by demonstrating the value of hard work,
frugality, and sobriety in a rigorously realistic mode,
representing the contentment that inheres in a plain social order
free of excess and embellishment. Improvement discourse defined
itself in opposition to the perceived excesses of both
revolutionary politics and romantic poetry, seeking (but failing)
to demonstrate how both political discontent and unhappiness could
be offset by a strict practicality and prosaic realism. The
improved societies depicted in these fictional pamphlets are the
expression of a counter-revolutionary liberalism and correspond to
representations of social stability in the emerging English realist
novel. These issues are examined in chapters exploring the career
of William Carleton; peasant "orality"; educational provision in
the post-Union period; the Irish language; secret society violence;
and the Irish revival.
Helen O'Connell argues that improvement discourse is embedded in
the literary mainstream of nineteenth-century Ireland, from the
"oral" peasant narratives of William Carleton to Young Ireland
nationalism. In addition, she shows how the cultural revival of the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emerged in reaction
to the modernizing discourse of improvement. While uncovering
previously neglected material, this study sheds new light on the
work of MariaEdgeworth, Mary Leadbeater, William Carleton, Thomas
Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy, Douglas Hyde, J. M. Synge, and W.B.
Yeats.
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