Congratulations to Dr. Mary Mullen, who has won the 2019 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature from the American Conference for Irish Studies for her book Novel Institutions: Anachronism, Irish Novels, and Nineteenth-Century Realism.
Here's what the judges wrote:
"Mary Mullen's Novel Institutions is a fascinating study that reassesses both literary histories and current scholarship about the realist novel. In clear, persuasive prose, it reads Irish realist novels to offer a transnational understanding of realism as a genre. By identifying the temporal anachronisms in Irish realism, the book draws provocative conclusions about how the unruly features of all realist novels disrupt their texts' dominant institutional politics, and about how we ourselves might disturb the demands of the institutions we inhabit by being likewise 'untimely.' Mullen's work is rigorous and original, and her ideas about how to push back against the strictures of academic institutions are a welcome tonic for our times."
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