The protean nature of Irish tale: The generic analysis of Maria Edgeworth’s "Ennui"
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2007
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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The aim of the article is to demonstrate the derivative nature of Irish tale, a short-lived genre
which thrived in the Romantic period. The analysis is based on Maria Edgeworth Ennui (1809),
which skillfully and self-consciously combines various kinds of factual discourse (e.g. memoirs,
autobiographies, travelogues) with diverse fictional modes (romance, melodrama) with a view to
expose the shallowness of English stereotypes about Ireland as well as to call for the modernization
of Ireland through the professionalisation of its gentry.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 43 (2007), pp. 275-282