The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction: Aristocratic Drag

by Ellen Crowell

This book identifies and interprets the longstanding ideological and aesthetic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South. It offers a rich comparative examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and American Southern plantation literatures and their respective representations of race and nation, gender and sexuality, region and landscape, and the gothic imagination. Pairing major writers from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748625488
• ISBN13: 9780748625482
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher