Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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272 Seiten

2026
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-83624-031-0 (ISBN)

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Irish literary studies has long subordinated the nineteenth century to the experimental triumphs of Irish modernism, variously dismissing its achievements as too indebted to British forms to be truly Irish, too transparently rooted in Irish history and politics to be globally or universally relevant, and too aesthetically weak to be worth close formal analysis. Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland challenges these critical orthodoxies, employing new methodological frameworks that expand how we understand the global, racial, formal, periodized, and political scope of nineteenth-century Irish literature. The essays in the collection move fluidly between history and form, archive and imagination, past and present, and Ireland and elsewhere as they reexamine the genres of nineteenth-century Ireland, coin new aesthetic categories, and theorize Ireland’s mobile place in world networks. Focusing as much on how literary criticism has marginalized and delimited nineteenth-century Irish literature as on the new, more expansive literary and cultural histories that this literature catalyzes, the collection argues that the project of re-reading nineteenth-century Ireland challenges accepted methodologies, imperial hierarchies, and narratives of exceptionalism whose reach extends far beyond Ireland itself. Race, Violence, and Form thus not only offers exciting new directions for Irish studies scholarship, but also models an approach to nineteenth-century literary studies that de-emphasizes insularity in favor of global, collaborative, and open-ended imagining.

Renée Fox is Associate Professor of Literature and Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Mary L. Mullen is Associate Professor of English at Villanova University.

Introduction, Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Renée Fox and Mary L. Mullen

Race and the Myth of Whiteness

1. Wilde in America: Race and the (Non-) Referent of Ireland

Patrick R. O’Malley

2. Moving into Chicago’s ‘White City’: Race, Medievalism and White Irishness at the 1893 World’s Fair

Amy C. Mulligan

National Violence

3. Shifting Realism: Maria Edgeworth, Novels, and the Irish Bull

Yoon Sun Lee

4. Thomas Moore’s Riotous History: The Unbearable Humor of the Memoirs of Captain Rock

Katarzyna Bartoszyńska

5. Reproduction, Maternal Mortality, and the National Tale

Matthew Reznicek

Colonial Intersections and Circulations

6. Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century

Christina Morin

7. Rocks and Referentiality: Ireland, Palestine, and Emily Lawless’s Novels

Mary L. Mullen

8. Oscar Wilde, Classical Greece, and Home Rule

Simon Joyce

Violent Forms

9. 'A System of Terror': Ireland, the Gothic Mode, and Marx's Critique of Colonial Capitalism

Amy E. Martin

10. The Abuses of Nineteenth-Century Genre: Irish Historical Fiction, Then and Now

Renée Fox

Responses

Race, Violence, Form—and Care

Talia Schaffer

Irish Agents

Ian Duncan

Afterword: Irish Racial Ambivalence and White Supremacy in the Colonial Caribbean

Alisha R. Walters

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century
Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, color; 17 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-83624-031-7 / 1836240317
ISBN-13	978-1-83624-031-0 / 9781836240310
Zustand	Neuware