Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790–1870 : Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements; 1. Public affections and familial politics: Burke, Edgeworth, and Ireland in the 1790s; 2. Allegories of prescription: engendering union in Owenson and Edgeworth; 3. Troubling others: representing the Immigrant Irish in Urban England at mid-century; 4. Plotting colonial authority: Trollope's Ireland, 1845?60; 5. England's opportunity, England's character: Arnold, Mill and the Fate of the Union in the 1860s; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.