CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. PREFACE xi
5. I. PROLOGUE: “IRISH ENOUGH” 1
6. II. MARIA EDGEWORTH (1768–1849): ORIGINATION AND A CHECKLIST 12
7. III. WILLIAM CARLETON (1794–1869): THE NATIVE INFORMER 43
8. IV. DECLENSIONS OF ANGLO-IRISH HISTORY: THE ACT OF UNION TO THE ENCUMBERED ESTATES ACTS OF 1848–9 ... WITH A GLANCE AT A SINGULAR HEROINE 74
9. V. CHARLES LEVER (1806–72): THE ANGLO-IRISH WRITER AS DIPLOMATIC ABSENTEE, WITH A GLANCE AT JOHN BANIM 84
10. VI. THE POLITICS OF ANGLO-IRISH GOTHIC: CHARLES ROBERT MATURIN, JOSEPH SHERIDAN LEFANU, AND THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED 109
11. VII. HISTORY AGAIN: THE ERA OF PARNELL-MYTHS AND REALITIES 136
12. VIII. SPINSTERS BALL: GEORGE MOORE AND THE LAND AGITATION 144
13. IX. “THE STRAIN OF THE DOUBLE LOYALTY”: EDITH SOMERVILLE AND MARTIN ROSS 162
14. X. W. Β. YEATS AND THE END OF ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE 198
15. XI. AFTER THE END: THE ANGLO-IRISH POSTMORTEM 224
16. AFTERWORD 253
17. NOTES 257
18. WORKS CITED 269
19. INDEX 279