The Absentee - Couverture souple

Edgeworth, Maria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192816829 ISBN 13 : 9780192816825

Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1988

Synopsis

Set in London, this novel describes the attitudes of an Irish landowning family towards their tenants, emphasizing the pernicious consequences for Ireland and for the wider world of absentee landownership. The book includes appendices showing how Edgeworth revised the text from the 1st edition, and Edgeworth's "Notes for essay on the genius and style of Burke". "The absentee" (1812) is the second of Maria Edgeworth's novels, the first being "Castle Rackrent" (1800) and is aimed at the general reader as well as for students of early 19th century English and Irish literature, of women's literature and on the historical and the regional novel.

A propos du livre

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Biographie de l'auteur

Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) was born in Oxfordshire and after being educated in England, she went to Edgeworthstown in Ireland to act as her father's assistant and governess to his many other children. With her father she wrote several educational books, and as a novelist she earned the praise of Sir Walter Scott.Heidi Thomson is Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. In addition to her work on Edgeworth, she has written on Gray, Wordsworth and Keats.Edited by Heidi Thomson and Kim WalkerWith an introduction by Heidi Thomson

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192816829
• ISBN 13: 9780192816825
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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