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

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0081-6272

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