description: 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). 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. The second edition now includes new notes informed by the latest scholarship.
language: English
title: Castle Rackrent
titlecomplete: Castle Rackrent (The World's Classics)
genres: Literature, 19th Century, Irish Literature, Novels, Historical, Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, 18th Century, Ireland
ratings_count: 3881
places: Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland
publisher: Oxford University Press