
Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth(Author)
Oxford Paperbacks (Publisher)
Published on 15. July 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
174 pages
978-0-19-283563-5 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
129 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-283563-5 (9780192835635)
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Maria Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent
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10/1995
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