Title Castle Rackrent / Maria Edgeworth ; edited with an introduction by George Watson

Published London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1964 London : Oxford University Press, 1964

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W'PONDS	820.7 E2355 A6/C/W		AVAILABLE

Description xxxv, 130 pages ; 21 cm Series Oxford English novels Oxford English novels. Contents 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 Summary 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 Notes Originally published in 1800 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxx) Subject Administration of estates -- Fiction. Administration of estates. Landlord and tenant -- Fiction. Landlord and tenant. Landowners -- Fiction. Landowners. Poor families -- Fiction. Poor families. Rich people -- Fiction. Rich people. Rural conditions -- Fiction. Rural conditions. SUBJECT Ireland -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104236 Ireland. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067964 Genre/Form Novels. Author Watson, George, 1927-2013, editor, writer of introduction LC no. 64056170 ISBN 0192810499

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