Maciulewicz, Joanna2017-08-212017-08-212007Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 43 (2007), pp. 275-2820081-6272http://hdl.handle.net/10593/19057The 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.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArtykuł