Details

Subject(s)

• Administration of estates—Fiction [Browse]
• Landlord and tenant—Fiction [Browse]
• Rural conditions—Fiction [Browse]
• Poor families—Fiction [Browse]
• Rich people—Fiction [Browse]
• Ireland—Social life and customs—Fiction [Browse]

Editor

• Watson, George, 1927-2013 [Browse]

Writer of foreword

• Kirkpatrick, Kathryn J. [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Oxford world's classics

Summary note

With her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

ISBN

• 0-19-266930-3
• 0-19-192106-8

OCLC

1255228074

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