The dandy in Irish and American Southern fiction : aristocratic drag /
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 an...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2007
Edinburgh : [2022] Edinburgh : c2007 |
| Series: | Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures |
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Table of Contents:
- COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Oaks, Serpents and Dandies; 2. The Picture of Charles Bon; 3. Ferocious Beauty; Epilogue; Works Cited and Consulted; Index
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION Sham Grandeurs, Sham Chivalries: Architectures of Aristocracy in Ireland and the American South
- CHAPTER 1 Oaks, Serpents and Dandies: Pseudoaristocracy in Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent and John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn
- CHAPTER 2 The Picture of Charles Bon: Oscar Wilde's Trip through Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha
- CHAPTER 3 Ferocious Beauty: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Anne Porter and the Modernist Female Dandy
- EPILOGUE The Dandy Unmasked: Emma Donoghue's 'words for Things' and Jim Grimsley's Dream Boy
- WORKS CITED AND CONSULTED
- INDEX