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An Uncomfortable Authority
In recent years, Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) has been the subject of increasing interest. A woman, a member of the landholding elite, an educator, and a daughter who lived under the historical shadow of her father, Edgeworth's life is difficult to categorize. Ironically, these very aspects of Edgeworth's identity that once excluded her from literary and historical discussions now form the basis of current interest in her life and her writing. This collection of essays builds on existing scholarship to develop new perspectives about Edgeworth's place in English and Irish history, literary history, and women's history. These essays explore the ways in which 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. Christopher Fauske is the assistant dean in the School of Arts & Science at Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts. Heidi Kaufman is assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware.
The Greatest Fiction Volume 4
GEORG EBERS An Egyptian Princess MARIA EDGEWORTH Belinda Castle Rackrent GEORGE ELIOT Adam Bede Felix Holt, the Radical Romola Silas Marner The Mill on the Floss ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN Waterloo OCTAVE FEUILLET Romance of a Poor Young Man HENRY FIELDING Amelia Jonathan Wild Joseph Andrews Tom Jones CAMILLE FLAMMARION Urania DE LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ Undine ÉMILE GABORIAU "File No. 113" JOHN GALT Annals of the Parish ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL Cranford Mary Barton WILLIAM GODWIN Caleb Williams JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The Sorrows of Young Werther Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship OLIVER GOLDSMITH The Vicar of Wakefield EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Renée Mauperin JAMES GRANT Bothwell
An Irish Literature Reader
In a volume that has become a standard text in Irish studies and serves as a course-friendly alternative to the Field Day anthology, editors Maureen O’Rourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey thirteen centuries of Irish literature, including Old Irish epic and lyric poetry, Irish folksongs, and drama. For each author the editors provide a biographical sketch, a brief discussion of how his or her selections relate to a larger body of work, and a selected bibliography. In addition, this new volume includes a larger sampling of women writers.
Ireland
The essence of the Emerald Isle is captured in this book, which introduces the reader to Irish literature as it reflects and illuminates the history and culture of the people of Ireland. William Dumbleton has painted an impressionistic portrait of the country and its literature, focusing, where it serves to bring out the essential pattern, on relevant or exemplary works by such writers as Maria Edgeworth, William Butler Yeats, James Plunkett, Sean O'Casey, John Synge, Liam O'Flaherty, James Joyce, and John McGahern.
Stories of Ireland
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The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson
Even as Romantic-period authors asserted the importance of telling the unvarnished truth, novelists were deploying narrative glossing in particularly sophisticated forms. The author examines the artistic craft and political engagement of three major women novelists-Elizabeth Hamilton, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson-whose self-conscious use of glosses facilitated their critiques of politics and society. All three writers employed devices such as prefaces and editorial notes, as well as alternative media, especially painting and drama, to comment on the narrative. The effect of these disparate media, the author argues, is to call the reader's attention away from the narrative itself. That...
