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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).
The second edition now includes new notes informed by the latest scholarship.
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ISBN/EAN | 9780199537556 |
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Author | Maria Edgeworth |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 20 Sep 2007 |
Format | Paperback |
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Castle Rackrent (Oxford World's Classics)
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.
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