Wright Julia M. Ireland, India and Nationalism in the nineteenth-century literature

Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 282 p.Introduction: Insensible Empire
Ireland, India, and the metropole
A strange neighbour: at the limits of mimicry
Sensibility: national feeling and colonial sympathy
Sympathy or horror: imagining India and Ireland
National Feeling, Colonial Mimicry, and Sympathetic Resolutions
‘‘National feeling’’ and unfeeling empire: the politics of sensibility
Antiquarian and inaugural nationalism
Sentimental nationalism
‘‘The national impulse’’ in Teeling’s memoirs of the 1798 Uprising
Empowering the colonized nation; or, virtue rewarded
Proud defiance, noble suffering, and patriot passion: Ireland as heroine
Reforming the imperial subject: sentimental education in Morgan’s
The Wild Irish Girl
Assimilation as iteration: foster children in Edgeworth’s fiction
Travellers, converts, and demagogues
Missionaries in the colonial imaginary
Literary interventions: Irish writers on religious toleration
Sympathetic travellers in Morgan’s The Missionary
Erotic and patriotic sentiment in Moore’s Lalla Rookh
An Irish protestant in search of religion: William Hamilton Drummond
Colonial Gothic and the Circulation of Wealth
On the frontier: sensibility and colonial wealth in Edgeworth and Lewis
Edgeworth’s administrators in India
Tracing colonial lucre in ‘‘The Anaconda’’: nabobs, agents, and traders
‘‘Going native’’: English sensibility and colonial discourse
The in-between of colonial Ireland: the case of Anne O’Connor
‘‘Some Neglected Children’’: thwarted genealogies in colonial history
Fragmented narratives: colonial historiography and Irish gothic fiction
Thwarting historical progress: iteration and contingency in Morgan’s ‘‘Absenteeism’’
Tales of disinheritance: colonial settlers and displaced families in Melmoth the Wanderer
‘‘The Tale of the Indians’’: proliferating similes and entangled histories
‘‘This distracted land’’: MacCarthy’s ‘‘Afghanistan’’
Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde: all points east
The ‘‘ugliness’’ of empire: Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Waves of colonization: Stoker’s The Lair of the White Worm
Shoring up the borders of empire: Stoker’s The Lady of the Shroud
Conclusion: The Wild Irish Boy in India
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