Maria Edgeworth (Irish Writers Series) - Softcover

Newcomer, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838777325 ISBN 13: 9780838777329

Verlag: Bucknell University Press,U.S., 1975

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(Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 22 May 1849) was a prolific Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo.
In her works, Edgeworth created a nostalgic past of Ireland in an attempt to celebrate Irish culture. Suvendrini Perera said Edgeworth's novels traced the gradual anglicanization of feudal Irish society. Edgeworth's goal in her works was to show the Irish as equal to the English. This is a common theme in her Irish works, combating the caricatured Irish with accurate representations.
Her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800) was an immediate success and firmly established Edgeworth's appeal. The book is a satire on Anglo-Irish landlords, before the year 1782, showing the need for more responsible management by the Irish landowning class.
Belinda (1801), a 3-volume work published in London, was Maria Edgeworth's first full-length novel notable for its controversial depiction of interracial marriage between an African servant and an English farm-girl.
Tales of Fashionable Life (1809 and 1812) making her the most commercially successful novelist of her age. After this, Edgeworth was regarded as the preeminent woman writer in England alongside Jane Austen.
Harrington (1817) was written as an apology to the Jewish community. The novel was a fictitious autobiography about overcoming antisemitism and includes the first sympathetic Jewish character in an English novel.
Helen (1834) is Maria Edgeworth's final novel, set in England, a conscious choice as Edgeworth found Ireland too troubling for a fictitious work in the political climate of the 1830s)

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0838777325
• ISBN 13: 9780838777329
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 94