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Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth

Castle Rackrent By Maria Edgeworth

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth


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With her first novel, written in the 1790s, Maria Edgeworth narrated the decline of a powerful Irish family. Her satire, profiling four generations of Rackrent heirs, inspired other authors, most notably Sir Walter Scott, and predicted the rise of the Irish Catholic bourgeoisie.

Castle Rackrent Summary

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

During the 1790s, with Ireland in political crisis, Maria Edgeworth made a surprisingly rebellious choice: in Castle Rackrent , her first novel, she adopted an Irish Catholic voice to narrate the decline of a family from her own Anglo-Irish class. Castle Rackrent 's narrator, Thady Quirk, gives us four generations of Rackrent heirs - Sir Patrick, the dissipated spendthrift; Sir Murtagh, the litigating fiend; Sir Kit, the brutal husband and gambling absentee; and Sir Condy, the lovable and improvident dupe of Thady's own son, Jason. With this satire on Anglo-Irish landlords Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott's Waverly (1814). She also changed the focus of conflict in Ireland from religion to class and boldly predicted the rise of the Irish Catholic Bourgeoisie. This book is intended for students of women's writing of the nineteenth century.

About Maria Edgeworth


Kathryn Kirkpatrick is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Appalachian State University.

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GOR011427192
9780192823946
0192823949
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Used - Like New
Paperback
Oxford University Press
1995-06-01
132
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