Castle Rackrent (Paperback, Critical edition)

Castle Rackrent s publication in 1800 signaled many firsts: the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first big house novel, the first Anglo-Irish novel, and the first novel with a narrator who is neither reliable nor part of the action. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the Baldwin & Cradock edition that appeared as part of an eighteen-volume collected edition titled Tales and Novels of Maria Edgeworth (1832 33). It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. Ryan Twomey focuses the volume s Backgrounds and Contexts on Edgeworth s importance as a writer, the influence of contemporary historical events on her writing (most importantly, the Act of Union of 1800, which united Ireland and Great Britain), and Castle Rackrent s impact on the development of the novel. These include a selection of Edgeworth s letters; five major contemporary reviews; biographical pieces; Sir Walter Scott on Edgeworth and her response to him; and excerpts from Edgeworth s juvenilia, The Double Disguise. Criticism is thematically organized to give readers a clear sense of Castle Rackrent s major themes: Irish writing and specifically the Irish novel, narrative voices, patriarchy and paternalism, and Edgeworth s Hiberno-English writing. Contributors include Seamus Deane, Marilyn Butler, Katherine O Donnell, Julia Nash, Joyce Flynn, and Brian Hollingsworth, among others. A chronology of Edgeworth s life and work and a selected bibliography are also included."

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Norton Critical Editions, 0
Release date:	February 2014
First published:	October 2014
Authors:	Maria Edgeworth
Editors:	Ryan Twomey
Dimensions:	213 x 132 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
Edition:	Critical edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-92241-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-393-92241-3
Barcode:	9780393922417

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