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Inter-nationalism: 'Castle Rackrent' and Anglo-Irish Union

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Maria Edgeworth expounds the logic of supplementarity that governs the Anglo-Irish Union through her novel 'Castle Rackrent.' The logic proposes that introducing a supplement leads to incomplete union and fosters anxiety in the process. Edgeworth employs this logic to enhance the understanding of nation and empire building, and brew anxiety in the text. This provides a powerful aesthetic effect. While Jason Quirk represents the educated native extending the colonial hegemony, the plot creates a sequence where loss of identity allows a union, which again disintegrates identity.

Internationalism, Irish question, Castle Rackrent (Book), Edgeworth, Maria

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Every man must kill the thing he loves: empire, homoerotics, and nationalism in John Buchan's 'Prester John.'

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John Buchan's novel 'Prester John,' like much 19th-century fiction, has vivid portrayals of the growing uncertainty and concern over issues such as racial segregation and discrimination based on sex and class. The conflict between the British and the white inhabitants of South Africa is well represented in the story of the exploits of a young boy in London. In his assertion for independence from British imperialism, Laputa belies a homosexual streak in his relationship with Davey which causes Davey to internalize the differences between Laputa as black and himself as white.

Social aspects, Race relations, Prester John (Book), Buchan, John (British writer)

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Anne Rice and the queering of culture

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Author Anne Rice's series of five novels about vampires have provided a picture of some of the most deeply held cultural assumptions of American society and a review of the banality of transgression in the latter part of the 20th century. They have long managed an uneasy relation with conservative politics and the cult of glamor. It is argued that Rice's vampires also express the secret desire for, and hidden fear of, gay men by the American culture.

Bibliography, Vampires, Sexual orientation, Rice, Anne

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