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Review
"Donovan does an admirable job of directing her readers attention to many relatively unfamiliar, nineteenth-century works from these two countries, as well as from France and Germany. The incisive comparisons she draws between all these stories highlight various ways in which local-color literature represented a locus for political and cultural dissent during a period when European thought was saturated with the totalizing force of a post-Enlightenment drive toward modernization. This pioneering study opens the way for further informed comparative analysis of the origins, forms, and influences of this distinctive form of writing."- Anne Markey; Trinity College, Dublin; Comparative Literature Studies
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Table of Contents
Preface Introduction Chapter One: Local-Color Literature and the Colonizations of Modernity Chapter Two: The Irish National Tale Chapter Three: The Scottish National Tale Chapter Four: Dorfgeschichte: The German Village Tale Chapter Five: Romans Champêtres: French Provincial Literature Epilogue: A Sketch of the Local-Color Movement in Other Countries Works Cited and Other Relevant Titles