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Castle Rackrent
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With her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814). Politically risky, stylistically in...
With her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814). Politically risky, stylistically innovative, and wonderfully entertaining, the novel changes the focus of conflict in Ireland from religion to class, and boldly predicts the rise of the Irish Catholic bourgeoisie.
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- Creator
- Maria Edgeworth ; edited with an introduction by George Watson
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- English
- Publication
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- London : Oxford University Press, 1964
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- xxxv, 130 pages ; 21 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00368656, ocm00368656
- Originally published in 1800.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxx).
- Introduction -- Note on the text -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology of Maria Edgeworth -- Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale -- Preface -- Castle Rackrent -- Advertisement to the English reader -- Glossary -- Appendix A. The butler copy -- Appendix B. Maria Edgeworth and Turgenev -- Commentary