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• Title: Helen O'connell, Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement (Book Review)
• Author : Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
• Release Date : January 22, 2008
• Genre: Reference,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 335 KB

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Helen O'Connell, Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 240 pages. GBP 53.00 (hardback). In an absorbing study of Irish literary culture in the post-Union period, Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement brings together a body of familiar and less well-known authors to describe a hitherto neglected tradition of 'improvement' writing which, its author argues, represents a regional expression of the 'stable, ... liberal realism' that dominated nineteenth-century print culture in English (p.1). Examining the fictional narratives and instructive dialogues of improvement tracts, Helen O'Connell finds a body of writing which figures social unity, stable communities, and flourishing agricultural economies. The Ireland of this canon is a liberal, enlightened textual terrain, above sectarian and political tension, removed from the 'romance' of grinding poverty, and insensible to millenarian, revolutionary fantasy--a space of calm economic progress and agricultural modernization. Improvement fiction itself constitutes a restrained and practical genre, whose realist and didactic discourse embodied the social values it sought to produce.

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