Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation

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. 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.

Author: Cliona O. Gallchoir
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Published: 09/07/2005
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.34w x 0.82d
ISBN13: 9781904558453
ISBN10: 1904558453
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh