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An uncomfortable authority : Maria Edgeworth and her contexts / edited by Heidi Kaufman and Chris Fauske.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849--Criticism and interpretation.
- Edgeworth, Maria.
- Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.
- Women and literature--Ireland--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Ireland.
- History.
- Ireland--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- Introduction / Chris Fauske, Heidi Kaufman
- Edgeworth, the united Irishmen, and "more intelligent treason" / Marilyn Butler
- History and utopia in Ormond / Peter Cosgrove
- The keener's cry in castle Rackrent : the death of Irish culture? / Frances R. Botkin
- "Le vrai n'est pas toujours vraisemblable" : the evaluation of realism in Edgeworth's Irish tales / Jacqueline Belanger
- "Distorted nature in a fever" : Irish bulls, Irish novels, the 1798 rebellion, and their gothic contexts / Darryl Jones
- National character and foreclosed Irishness : a reconsideration of Ennui / Kathleen Costello-Sullivan
- "The fashion not to be an absentee" : fashion and moral authority in Edgeworth's tales / Heide Thomson
- "Games of chance" : Belinda, education, and empire / Jessica Richard
- Control experiment : Edgeworth's critique of Rousseau's educational theory / Catherine Toal
- Harrington and anti-Semitism : Mendelssohn's invisible agency / Susan Manly
- A whillaluh for Ireland : Castle Rackrent and Edgeworth's influence on Sir Walter Scott / Kit Kincade.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0874138787
- OCLC:
- 54400439
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