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'Isn't it your own country?': The stranger in nineteenth-century Irish literature

Fegan, Melissa
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University College Chester
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2004-01-01
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This article discusses the nineteenth-century British obsession with travel in Ireland, and the representation of the stranger in three novels soon after the Union: Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, Edgeworth's The Absentee, and Banim's The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century. These Irish writers use the stranger to expose misconception and urge reconciliation, but the stranger undergoes an evolution in their works, from English, to Anglo-Irish, to Irish — from colonizer coming to terms with the actions of his ancestors, to Anglo-Irish landlord taking responsibility for his land and tenants, to Irishman embracing his national identity and forging his own destiny.
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Yearbook of English Studies, 2004, 34, pp. 31-45
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Modern Humanities Research Association
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Yearbook of English Studies
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/337189
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en
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Published version used with kind permission of Modern Humanities Research Association.
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0306-2473
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1904350062
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