Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Edgeworth's Works
Edgeworth's Works: Popular tales: v. 1. Lame Jervas. The will. Limerick gloves. Out of debt out of danger. 5th ed. v. 2. The lottery. Rosanna. Murad the unlucky. The manufacturers. 5th ed. v. 3. The contrast. The grateful negro. Tomorrow. 5th ed
Edgeworth's Works: Moral tales: v. 1. Forester, and The Prussian vase. 7th ed. v. 2. The good aunt, and Angelina. 7th ed. v. 3. The good French governess, Mademoiselle Panache, and The knapsack. 7th ed
Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell
Author: Julie Nash
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351125982
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. The author shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of servants in short fiction and novels such as Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Belinda, and Helen and Gaskell's North and South and Cranford. Servant characters, the author contends, enable these writers to give voice to the contradictions inherent in the popular paternalistic philosophy of their times because the situation of domestic servitude itself embodies such inconsistencies. Servants, whose labor was essential to the economic and social function of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British society, made up the largest category of workers in England by the nineteenth century and yet were expected to be socially invisible. At the same time, they lived in the same houses as their masters and mistresses and were privy to the most intimate details of their lives. Both Edgeworth and Gaskell created servant characters who challenge the social hierarchy, thus exposing the potential for dehumanization and corruption inherent in the paternalistic philosophy. the author's study opens up important avenues for future scholars of women's fiction in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351125982
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. The author shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of servants in short fiction and novels such as Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Belinda, and Helen and Gaskell's North and South and Cranford. Servant characters, the author contends, enable these writers to give voice to the contradictions inherent in the popular paternalistic philosophy of their times because the situation of domestic servitude itself embodies such inconsistencies. Servants, whose labor was essential to the economic and social function of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British society, made up the largest category of workers in England by the nineteenth century and yet were expected to be socially invisible. At the same time, they lived in the same houses as their masters and mistresses and were privy to the most intimate details of their lives. Both Edgeworth and Gaskell created servant characters who challenge the social hierarchy, thus exposing the potential for dehumanization and corruption inherent in the paternalistic philosophy. the author's study opens up important avenues for future scholars of women's fiction in the nineteenth century.
Edgeworth's Works: Belinda. 3d ed., corrected and improved
Edgeworth's Works: Patronage. 3d ed
Edgeworth's Works: Harrington, and Ormond. 2d ed., corrected
The Works of Maria Edgeworth, Part I Vol 3
Author: Marilyn Butler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000749428
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This book is a collection of novels Leonora and Harrington by Maria Edgeworth that address issues of nationalism in an Anglo-Irish context and that will be of much use to scholars, students and general readers interested in fictional works. MARIA EDGEWORTH was born in 1768. Her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800) was also her first Irish tale. The next such tale was Ennui (1809), after which came The Absentee, which began life as an unstaged play and was then published (in prose) in Tales of Fashionable Life (1812), as were several of her other stories. They were followed in 1817 by the last of her Irish tales, Ormond. Maria Edgeworth died in 1849. Edited with an introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000749428
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This book is a collection of novels Leonora and Harrington by Maria Edgeworth that address issues of nationalism in an Anglo-Irish context and that will be of much use to scholars, students and general readers interested in fictional works. MARIA EDGEWORTH was born in 1768. Her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800) was also her first Irish tale. The next such tale was Ennui (1809), after which came The Absentee, which began life as an unstaged play and was then published (in prose) in Tales of Fashionable Life (1812), as were several of her other stories. They were followed in 1817 by the last of her Irish tales, Ormond. Maria Edgeworth died in 1849. Edited with an introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler.