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The Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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The Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
Series: Irish Studies
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This volume is a comprehensive study of the ascendancy novel from
Maria Edgeworth's ""Castle Rackrent"" (1800) through contemporary
reinventions of the form. Kreilkamp argues that Irish fiction needs
to be rescued from the critical assumptions underlying attacks on
the historical mythologies of Yeats and the Literary Revival.
Exploring the uniquely Irish dimensions of colonial and
post-colonial societies, she charts the self-critical formulations
of a gentry culture facing its extinction - more often and more
successfully - with comic irony than nostalgia. Vera Kreilkamp
positions the Big House novels within current debates in
post-colonial criticism and theory. She argues that these fictional
representations of a beleaguered society provide a complex, nuanced
gaze into a hybrid colonial group that distanced itself from the
self-aggrandizements of the revivalists. As she examines the
gothic, revisionist and post-modern permutations of an enduring
national form, she illustrates the ways ascendancy women
transformed conventions of an English domestic genre into political
fiction. Her attention to Edgeworth's Irish works, the fiction of
the neglected Victorian novelist Charles Lever and the gothic forms
of the Big House by Sheridan Le Fanu and Charles Maturin, provides
a historical context for later reformulations of the genre by
Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane, William Trevor,
Jennifer Johnston, Aidan Higgins and John Banville.
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