Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Belinda
Author: Maria EdgeworthEssay on Irish Bulls
Author: Richard Lovell EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bulls, Colloquial
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Castle Rackrent
Author: Maria EdgeworthHarrington and Ormond
Author: Maria EdgeworthRosamond
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Novels and Selected Works of Maria Edgeworth
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN: 9781851961863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Absentee
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775415929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.
The Novels and Selected Works of Maria Edgeworth: Practical education
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher: Pickering & Chatto Limited
ISBN: 9781851961856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell
Author: Professor Julie NashPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409489876
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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. Julie Nash 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, Nash 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. Nash's study opens up important avenues for future scholars of women's fiction in the nineteenth century.
Belinda
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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