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
Author Maria Edgeworth
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date 20 Sep 2007
Format Paperback
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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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