The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century

by Patrick R. O'Malley

Book Overview

Honorable Mention--Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish-America

This book analyzes the role of Irishness in nineteenth-century constructions of race and racialization, both in the British Isles and in the United States. Focusing on the years immediately preceding the American Civil War, Patrick O'Malley interrogates the bardic verse epic, the gothic tale, the realist novel, the stage melodrama, and the political polemic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813950562
• ISBN13: 9780813950563
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher