A portrait of the chief as a general paralytic: rhetorics of sexual pathology in the Parnell split
The O’Shea trial and the ensuing fall of Charles Stewart Parnell occupy an epochal position in accounts of the sexual politics of Victorian Britain and the development of Irish nationalism. This article examines how the “Parnell myth” came to serve (and was constructed from the outset) as a symbolic...
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Taylor and Francis
2017
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