Maria Edgeworth : women, enlightenment and nation

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Label

Maria Edgeworth : women, enlightenment and nation

Title remainder

women, enlightenment and nation

Statement of responsibility

Clíona Ó Gallchoir

Creator

• O Gallchoir, Cliona

Subject

• Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation
• History
• Ireland -- In literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Women and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
• Political fiction, English -- History and criticism

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"This book reassesses 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. O Gallchoir addresses the full scope of Edgeworth's writing, creating a context within which Edgeworth's Irish novels can be read alongside tales and novels set in England and France: undervalued texts are recovered and better-known ones are shown in a new light. Edgeworth's commitment to the values of the Enlightenment is explored in the context of her indebtedness to the work of French women writers and her sophisticated awareness of the precarious position of the woman writer in society."--Jacket

Cataloging source

UKM

Dewey number

823.7

Index

index present

LC call number

PR4647

LC item number

.O35 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography