... take up and extend Said’s insight, in Culture and Imperialism,that the ‘‘convergence between the patterns of narrative authorityconstitutive of the novel on the one hand, and, on the other, a ... conceptionsof the ‘‘Irish nation’’ on which the discipline of Irish studies has beenbased no longer serve the needs, interests, and realities of the contem-porary situation, then the postcolonial ... fictional and non-fictional representations of Ireland’s relationship with Englandthroughout the nineteenth century. Through postcolonial and feminist theory, she considers how cross-cultural contact...