| Castle Rackrent Contributor(s): Edgeworth, Maria (Author), Twomey, Ryan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393922413 ISBN-13: 9780393922417 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $23.28 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2014023125 |
| Lexile Measure: 1630 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 8.3" (0.50 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Ireland - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Castle Rackrent's publication in 1800 signaled many firsts: the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first "big house" novel, the first Anglo-Irish novel, and the first novel with a narrator who is neither reliable nor part of the action. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the Baldwin & Cradock edition that appeared as part of an eighteen-volume collected edition titled Tales and Novels of Maria Edgeworth (1832-33). It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. Ryan Twomey focuses the volume's "Backgrounds and Contexts" on Edgeworth's importance as a writer, the influence of contemporary historical events on her writing (most importantly, the Act of Union of 1800, which united Ireland and Great Britain), and Castle Rackrent's impact on the development of the novel. These include a selection of Edgeworth's letters; five major contemporary reviews; biographical pieces; Sir Walter Scott on Edgeworth and her response to him; and excerpts from Edgeworth's juvenilia, The Double Disguise. "Criticism" is thematically organized to give readers a clear sense of Castle Rackrent's major themes: Irish writing and specifically the Irish novel, narrative voices, patriarchy and paternalism, and Edgeworth's Hiberno-English writing. Contributors include Seamus Deane, Marilyn Butler, Katherine O'Donnell, Julia Nash, Joyce Flynn, and Brian Hollingworth, among others. A chronology of Edgeworth's life and work and a selected bibliography are also included. |
Contributor Bio(s): Twomey, Ryan: - Ryan Twomey is Lecturer in English at Macquarie University. A University of New South Wales Ph.D., he is the author of "The Child Is Father of the Man" Importance of Juvenilia in the Development of the Author. He is co-editor of Maria Edgeworth's The Double Disguise and of William Harrison Ainsworth's The December Tales: A Selection. |