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Maria Edgeworth
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Women, Enlightenment and Nation
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Artikel-Nr:
9781904558460
Veröffentl:
2005
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.09.2005
Seiten:
221
Autor:
Cliona O Gallchoir
Gewicht:
553 g
Format:
241x164x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Cliona O Gallchoir lectures in English at University College Cork and has published articles on Maria Edgeworth and aspects of Irish writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She also edited two volumes in the Pickering & Chatto Novels and Selected Works of Maria Edgeworth.
This innovative book reassess the place of Maria Edgeworth within the Irish literary canon by illuminating the connections between her views on gender and her construction of Ireland, beginning in the revolutionary decade of the 1790s and ending in the aftermath of Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform.
Introduction; Enlightenment, Gender and the Nation; Women, Writing and the Irish Public Sphere after the Union: Irish Identity in Castle Rackrent and An Essay on Irish Bulls; Revolution and Memory in Madame de Fleury, Emilie de Coulanges and Ennui; German and Irish heroes in Patronage and The Absentee; The Language of an Irish Gentleman in Ormond;. 'Apres nous le deluge': The Woman Writer in the Age of O'Connell; Afterword: 'Big House Novelist' or 'Irish Woman Writer'? Notes; Bibliography; Index.