Castle Rackrent

Castle Rackrent
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Total Pages : 418
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Synopsis Castle Rackrent by : Maria Edgeworth

Castle Rackrent

Castle Rackrent
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Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Total Pages : 110
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ISBN-10 : PKEY:B1977933209E65B9
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Synopsis Castle Rackrent by : Maria Edgeworth

In eighteenth-century Ireland, a privileged class of Anglo-Irish landowners known as the “Protestant Ascendancy” lived on great estates, with the mostly-Catholic Irish as their tenants and servants. Maria Edgeworth was part of this Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Castle Rackrent, her best known novel, satirizes the failures and follies of her Anglo-Irish peers, their mismanagement of their estates, and their abuse of their Irish tenants. The narrator of Castle Rackrent is Thady Quirk, whose family has served on the Rackrent estate for generations. Thady relates the life stories of four successive lords of Castle Rackrent and how their individual character and personality affect the lives and families that depend on them. Castle Rackrent was one of the first historical novels written in English, and Walter Scott later cited it as inspiration for his own Scottish historical novels. Edgeworth included two sets of explanatory notes on aspects of Irish life and culture for her English readers, footnotes in the main text and a “glossary” added in the second edition. These have been merged into a single set of endnotes in this Standard Ebooks edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian Tale

Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian Tale
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Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0017460976
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Synopsis Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian Tale by : Maria Edgeworth

From Castle Rackrent to Castle Dracula

From Castle Rackrent to Castle Dracula
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Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
Total Pages : 407
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ISBN-10 : 9780956071675
ISBN-13 : 0956071678
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Synopsis From Castle Rackrent to Castle Dracula by : Paul E. H. Davis

Paul E H Davis and the Irish Land Question In his challenging new book, Paul E H Davis offers an entirely new critique of how novelists in nineteenth-century Ireland had to act -both as writers and historians - in their attempts to find a solution to what became the Irish Land Question. Callenging the widely-held nationalist view that Irish novelists of this period had little or nothing to offer, Davis slots these castaway novelists into a new, identifiable category: the agrarian novelists. The book is divided into three parts. Part One considers novelists writing between the Union and the Famine: Maria Edgeworth, Gerald Griffin, John and Michael Banim and William Carleton. Part Two looks at how the agrarian novel 'emigrates' with reference to the novels of Charles Kickham and to the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope. Part Three considers how some agrarian novelists - specifically Thomas Moore and Bram Stoker - felt the solution lay not in the real world but in the world of fantasy. An exceptional book on why the agrarian novelists deserve to be valued for their unique perception of Ireland in the nineteenth century.

Castle Rackrent

Castle Rackrent
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Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105048050038
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Synopsis Castle Rackrent by : Maria Edgeworth