by Maria Edgeworth · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192823946
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«Castle Rackrent» is Maria Edgeworth's satirical novel, published by Oxford University Press España in paperback (127 pages, in English).
Thady Quirk, old servant of the Rackrents, narrates the decline of four generations of Anglo-Irish landowners: spendthrifts, litigants and squanderers. Edgeworth satirizes the Irish ruling class, shifts the country's conflict from religion to social class and anticipates the rise of the Catholic bourgeoisie.
This 1995 edition belongs to the Oxford World's Classics collection and includes a new introduction; the work was originally published in 1800.
For readers of classic fiction and students of English and Irish literature.
Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held critical views on estate management, politics, and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. During the first decade of the 19th century she was one of the most widely read novelists in Britain and Ireland. Her name today is most commonly associated with Castle Rackrent, her first novel, in which she, while Anglican herself, used the voice of an Irish Catholic character to narrate the dissipation and decline of a family from her own landed Anglo-Irish class.
