Literary Figures - Women's Biography, English, Irish, Scottish Women - Literary Biography, Irish Literary Biography, General & Miscellaneous Irish Fiction & Prose Literature - Literary Criticism
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Overview
In recent years, Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) has been the subject of increasing interest. This collection of essays builds on scholarship that has helped canonize Edgeworth's writing. It also raises new questions about her place in English and Irish history, literary history, and women's history. In many ways, Edgeworth's entire adult life was an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable, an attempt to justify and preserve her own privileged position even as she acknowledged the tenuousness of that position and as she sought to claim other privileges denied her. Edgeworth's writing challenges readers to understand her historical contexts as much as it obliged her to confront the politics of her literary authority.Synopsis
Literature scholars from around the English-speaking world examine the work of educator and writer Edgeworth (1767-1849), a member of a Protestant landowning family in Ireland. They cover history, mythology, and Edgeworth's Ireland; representing Ireland: fiction, realism, and authority; education, empire, and the Anglo-Irish dilemma; and Edgeworth's influences. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Details
Published
November 1, 2004
Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Pages
296
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780874138788