商品簡介
19th-century Ireland and Britain existed as "alter-nations" in the realm of political writings and cultural production, as the nationhood of each was conceived materially and discursively in dialectical relation to that of the other, argues Martin (English, Mount Holyoke College), who expands on this idea by examining how British writing and cultural production engaged with questions of nation, nationalism, and the state in relation to Irish anticolonial insurgency (or in the British view, "terrorism"). She argues that modern categories of "nationalism," "terror," and "the state" have their earliest iterations conceived in relation to and in opposition to Irish nationalist insurgency and were grounded in Victorian ideas of racial (and not religious) difference, while class and gender modes of representing Irish difference also came into play. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Amy E. Martin is associate professor of English at Mount Holyoke College.
