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| Titre : | Migration, Nationality and Perspective in Charles Johnston's The History of John Juniper (1781) (2017) |
| Auteurs : | Joe LINES, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Eighteenth-Century Ireland (vol. 32 2017) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 11-27 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Recent research has expanded our knowledge of Irish fiction before 1800 and has allowed readings of previously neglected texts as early Irish novels. Charles Johnston (c.1719-c.1800) is one example of a lesser-known novelist whose work has received more sustained engagement as a result. This article builds on recent scholarship on Johnston to interrogate his late novel, The History of John Juniper (1781). This novel has been dismissed as less successful, and of loss merit, than other works by Johnston. I argue, however, that the representation of Ireland in John Juniper repudiates the conventionnal association between the Irish and crime through a plotline in which the concept of an inherited disposition is questioned. An Irish perspective on British and colonial politics in the late eighteenth century can be discerned within John Juniper. |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
