'Isn't it your own country?': The stranger in nineteenth-century Irish literature
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Fegan, MelissaAffiliation
University College ChesterPublication Date
2004-01-01
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This article discusses the nineteenth-century British obsession with travel in Ireland, and the representation of the stranger in three novels soon after the Union: Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, Edgeworth's The Absentee, and Banim's The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century. These Irish writers use the stranger to expose misconception and urge reconciliation, but the stranger undergoes an evolution in their works, from English, to Anglo-Irish, to Irish — from colonizer coming to terms with the actions of his ancestors, to Anglo-Irish landlord taking responsibility for his land and tenants, to Irishman embracing his national identity and forging his own destiny.Citation
Yearbook of English Studies, 2004, 34, pp. 31-45Publisher
Modern Humanities Research AssociationJournal
Yearbook of English StudiesAdditional Links
http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Journals/yes.htmlType
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Published version used with kind permission of Modern Humanities Research Association.ISSN
0306-2473ISBN
1904350062Sponsors
This article was submitted to the RAE2008 for the University of Chester - English Language & Literature.Collections
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