1. Introduction: Approaches to Reading Irish Fiction 2. The Fashionable Potato: Lady Blessington and W.H. Maxwell 3. Peasant or Pheasant novelist? The Authority of William Carleton 4. Ruin through Rollicking: Poor Charles Lever 5. Sensational Stalwarts: Irish Victorian Novelists in Mid Century 6. 'Two Nations on One Soil': Land, Fenians, and Politics in Fiction 7. 'Real Protestantism never Slumbers': Religious and Historical Fiction 8. Frenzied Form: The Land-War Novel 9. Grania and her Sisters: New Women Abroad and at Home 10. Fin de Siecle: Vortex of the Genres 11. The Lives of the Irish Novelists 12. Conclusion: Contested Representations BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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