The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction: Aristocratic Drag - Rilegato

Crowell, Ellen

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ISBN 10: 0748625488 ISBN 13: 9780748625482

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2007

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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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Book by Ellen Crowell

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• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0748625488
• ISBN 13: 9780748625482
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 205