Castle Rackrent
By: Maria Edgeworth ; edited with an introduction by Susan Kubica Howard
Contributors: Howard, Susan Kubica, 1958-
Publisher: Hackett Pub. Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9780872208780; 9780872208773
Subjects: Administration of estates -- Fiction; Landlord and tenant -- Fiction; Rural conditions -- Fiction; Poor families -- Fiction; Rich people -- Fiction; Ireland -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from Britain in 1782, Castle Rackrent tells the story of three generations of an estate-owning family as seen through the eyes--and as told in the voice--of their longtime servant, Thady Quirk, recorded and commented on by an anonymous Editor. This edition of Maria Edgeworth's first novel is based on the 1832 edition, the last revised by her, and includes Susan Kubica Howard's foot-of-the-page notes on the text of the memoir as well as on the notes and glosses the Editor offers "for the information of the ignorant English reader." Howard's Introduction situates the novel in its political and historical context and suggests a reading of the novel as Edgeworth's contribution to the discussion of the controversial Act of Union between Ireland and Britain that went into effect immediately after the novel's publication in London in 1800"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Uses the 1832 edition of the novel published by Baldwin & Cradock, London, in the first volume of the eighteen-volume collection, Tales and novels, as copy-text

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