Castle Rackrent.
By: Introd. and notes by Bruce Teets.
Series: University of Miami. Critical studies,; no. 4
Publisher: University of Miami Press
Published: 1964
Place of publication: [Coral Gables, Fla.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Administration of estates -- Fiction; Landlord and tenant -- Fiction; Rural conditions -- Fiction; Poor families -- Fiction; Rich people -- Fiction; Landowners -- Fiction; Ireland -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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.
Notes: "The text ... is that of vol. 4 of [the author's] Tales and novels, published in London by Whittaker ... 1848."