Castle Rackrent (Paperback)

Maria Edgeworth

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Broadview Press Ltd, Peterborough, 2018

1554814596 / 9781554814596

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Paperback. Castle RackrentMaria Edgeworths first novel, and the work for which she was and is best knownoccupies a most unusual place in the history both of Irish literature and of English-language fiction. It has sometimes been called the first historical novel in English literature, yet in its tone it more closely resembles a comedy of manners than anything in the genre that has come to be known as the historical novel. It has been identified as the first of other lines as wellthe first English novel written in a non-standard dialect, the first provincial or regional novel, and the first in what developed into the big house tradition of novels focused on the lives of the Anglo-Irish Protestant landholding class that dominated much of Ireland for centuries. Its innovative use of an unreliable narrator makes it also, arguably, an important milestone in the development of the novel form as a whole.Castle Rackrent chronicles the declining fortunes and ultimate ruin of the Rackrent family through the mishandling of their estate by a series of incompetent and irresponsible heirs.Edgeworth attested in a letter she wrote years later that the only character drawn from the life in the novel is Thady Quirk (servant to the Rackrent family, and the novels narrator). But the novel as a whole is grounded in real eventsthe careless landlords and the middle men who grind the face of the poor described in Edgeworths fiction were very real in eighteenth-century Ireland.This edition does more than any other to set this classic novel in the political, economic, and religious context of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Irish life; in addition to an illuminating introduction, the edition includes a variety of background historical materials. An edition that locates this classic historical novel in the context of the history it describes. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Titolo
Castle Rackrent (Paperback)
Autore
Maria Edgeworth
Editore
Broadview Press Ltd, Peterborough
Anno di pubblicazione
2018
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1554814596
ISBN 13
9781554814596

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