Castle Rackrent

Castle Rackrent
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Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015009181705
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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

Castle Rackrent
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Publisher : W. W. Norton
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0393922413
ISBN-13 : 9780393922417
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Synopsis Castle Rackrent by : Maria Edgeworth

The only edition of this 1800 novel--widely regarded as the first historical novel--to include supporting materials on both the importance of Maria Edgeworth as a writer and the influence of contemporary history on this novel.

An Uncomfortable Authority

An Uncomfortable Authority
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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 0874138787
ISBN-13 : 9780874138788
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Synopsis An Uncomfortable Authority by : Heidi Kaufman

In recent years, Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) has been the subject of increasing interest. A woman, a member of the landholding elite, an educator, and a daughter who lived under the historical shadow of her father, Edgeworth's life is difficult to categorize. Ironically, these very aspects of Edgeworth's identity that once excluded her from literary and historical discussions now form the basis of current interest in her life and her writing. This collection of essays builds on existing scholarship to develop new perspectives about Edgeworth's place in English and Irish history, literary history, and women's history. These essays explore the ways in which Edgeworth's entire adult life was an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable, an attempt to justify and preserve her own privileged position even as she acknowledged the tenuousness of that position and as she sought to claim other privileges denied her. Christopher Fauske is the assistant dean in the School of Arts & Science at Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts. Heidi Kaufman is assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware.

The Absentee

The Absentee
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Publisher : The Floating Press
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : 9781775415923
ISBN-13 : 1775415929
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Synopsis The Absentee by : Maria Edgeworth

On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.

Women in "Castle Rackrent" by Maria Edgeworth

Women in
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Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Total Pages : 14
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ISBN-10 : 9783656877905
ISBN-13 : 3656877904
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Synopsis Women in "Castle Rackrent" by Maria Edgeworth by : Kevin Oheix

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 17, University of Rennes 2, language: English, abstract: Maria Edgeworth's Caste Rackrent was published in 1800 at the moment of political union between Ireland and Great Britain. This short novel was the first of her Irish tales. Set before 1782, a momentous period for the independence of the Dublin parliament, Thady Quirk, a servant in a big house tells us of four generations of the Rackrent family. As the Irish Catholic narrator, he recounts the decline of this Protestant landowning family who stems from Maria Edgeworth's own background. Thady's stories describe how the Irish middle class rose because of mismanagement by the Protestant elite. The novel represents a key moment in the enlargement of the autonomy of women’s authorship. Narrated from a colonial point of view, Castle Rackrent indicates Edgeworth's hybridity in regard to her “Anglo-Irishness” and heralds the beginnings of a reflection on Irish nationhood and the salient function of women in the story. My analysis will revolve around the ways in which women in Castle Rackrent demonstrate ambivalence in terms of their presence as victims and as characters whose socio-political weight indicates their evolution. Emphasis will be laid on how women are regarded as victims of a patriarchal system in which, at the same time, they use as a model to acquire economic independence while the landlords fall from grace and lose their prestige.

Belinda

Belinda
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Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:590327467
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Synopsis Belinda by : Maria Edgeworth

Harrington and Ormond

Harrington and Ormond
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Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105118900021
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Synopsis Harrington and Ormond by : Maria Edgeworth

Two Irish National Tales

Two Irish National Tales
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Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0618084878
ISBN-13 : 9780618084876
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Synopsis Two Irish National Tales by : María Edgeworth

For the first time, these two important Irish national novels are paired in one volume, suitable for courses in Anglo-Irish literature and history, Romantic studies, and women's studies. Contextual materials include commentaries by contemporaries and personal letters from both authors.

Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell

Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 150
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ISBN-10 : 9781409489870
ISBN-13 : 1409489876
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Synopsis Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell by : Professor Julie Nash

Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. Julie Nash shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of servants in short fiction and novels such as Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Belinda, and Helen and Gaskell's North and South and Cranford. Servant characters, Nash contends, enable these writers to give voice to the contradictions inherent in the popular paternalistic philosophy of their times because the situation of domestic servitude itself embodies such inconsistencies. Servants, whose labor was essential to the economic and social function of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British society, made up the largest category of workers in England by the nineteenth century and yet were expected to be socially invisible. At the same time, they lived in the same houses as their masters and mistresses and were privy to the most intimate details of their lives. Both Edgeworth and Gaskell created servant characters who challenge the social hierarchy, thus exposing the potential for dehumanization and corruption inherent in the paternalistic philosophy. Nash's study opens up important avenues for future scholars of women's fiction in the nineteenth century.