{"product_id":"irish-materialisms-colleen-taylor-9780198894834","title":"Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830","description":"\u003cem\u003eIrish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830\u003c\/em\u003e, is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the Irish peasantry's subversive entanglement with nonhuman materiality. Each of the chapters engages a focused case study of an everyday object in colonial Ireland (coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, and pigs) to examine how each object's unique materiality contributed to the colonial ideology of British paternalism and afforded creative Irish expression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe main argument of \u003cem\u003eIrish Materialisms\u003c\/em\u003e is its methodology: of reading literature through the agency of materiality and nonhuman narrative in order to gain a more egalitarian and varied understanding of colonial experience. \u003cem\u003eIrish Materialisms\u003c\/em\u003e proves that new materialism holds powerful postcolonial potential. Through an intimate understanding of the materiality Irish peasants handled on a daily basis, this book presents a new portrait of Irish character that reflects greater empowerment, resistance, and expression in the oppressed Irish than has been previously recognized.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colleen Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019889483X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198894834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.00d","brand":"Colleen Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44919621288191,"sku":"9780198894834","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_840433c0-75c5-49ed-b1ae-979cc7bac179.jpg?v=1710359018","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/irish-materialisms-colleen-taylor-9780198894834","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}