Ascendancy and the 1798 Rebellion in Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent (1800) and Ennui (1809)
The 1798 Irish rebellion is a ubiquitous presence in Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent and Ennui, yet the novels’ most striking commentary about the insurrection and its causes is often concealed in their most innocuous passages. Beginning with a survey of some of Ireland’s social transformations du...
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| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2013-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/534 |