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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2007-03-15</publicationDate>
        <volume>2</volume>
    <issue>2</issue>
        <startPage>135</startPage>
    <endPage>150</endPage>
    <publisherRecordId>2662</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ No More Than Human by Maura Laverty: Impressions of a Reluctant Governess in Spain ]]></title>

    <authors>
     
      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ Ute Anna Mittermaier ]]></name>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
      </author>
        </authors>

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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ Trinity College, Dublin ]]></affiliationName>
        </affiliationsList>

        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ This paper represents an imagological analysis of Maura Laverty’s strongly autobiographical novel No More Than Human (1944) about the experiences of a young Irish governess in Spain in the 1920s. Drawing on the theory and methodology of imagology, it discusses the well-rounded image of Spain conveyed by Laverty’s depiction of Spanish land- and cityscapes, characters, and socio-political conditions revealing the author’s familiarity with widespread Spanish stereotypes. In line with the imagological tenet that the creation of hetero- and auto-images is interdependent, the paper shows how by having her heroine comment explicitly on Spanish society and politics of the 1920s Laverty indirectly expresses her attitude
to her native country Ireland in the first decade of national independence. From both the political, religious, and moral values expressed in the novel under discussion and the scant existent biographical information on Laverty it is concluded that the writer shared the patriotism and the Catholic, rural, and patriarchal values of the official, Church- and State-sanctioned version of Irish
nationalism. At the same time, however, she seems to have rejected the extreme moral conservatism propagated by statesmen and clerics in the early years of the Irish Free State.
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          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Maura Laverty</keyword>
              <keyword>No More Than Human</keyword>
              <keyword>Imagology</keyword>
              <keyword>National Stereotypes</keyword>
              <keyword>Ireland</keyword>
              <keyword>Spain</keyword>
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