English, Irish, Scottish Women - Literary Biography, Literary Figures - Women's Biography, Irish Literary Biography, General & Miscellaneous Irish Fiction & Prose Literature - Literary Criticism, Romanticism
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Overview
The work of Maria Edgeworth has always attracted interest, but little attention has been paid to her extraordinary recognition of the power of imagination, a force which she and her contemporaries particularly associated with the romance, rather than the realistic, mode. Drawing widely upon her lesser-known educational treatises and literature for children and adolescents as well as her more celebrated tales and novels, Sharon Murphy explores this aspect of Edgeworthâ??s writing. The book also offers a reassessment of the literary consequences of Edgeworthâ??s relationship with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, and illustrates why her use of romance must be understood in terms of the greater familial and colonial romance that informs all of her writing.Book Details
Published
October 1, 2004
Publisher
Four Courts Press Ltd
Pages
208
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781851828524