Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale taken from facts and from the manners of the Irish squires before the year 1782
by Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) came to live in Ireland at the age ...
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In the following essay, Ó hÓgáin commends Edgeworth's faithful depiction of Irish folkways in Castle Rackrent.
In approaching Castle Rackrent as a folklorist, one is imp...
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Pritchett, a modern British novelist, short story writer, and critic, is respected for his mastery of the short story and for what critics describe as his judicious, reliable, and insightful literary ...
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In the following essay, Edwards examines the role of the first-person narrator of Castle Rackrent.
Since Castle Rackrent was published in 1800, nearly all the critics have agreed that Thady Quirk, ...
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In the following essay, Brookes commends the harmony of intent, subject matter, and form of the essentially didactic Castle Rackrent.
Castle Rackrent is often preferred among Maria Edgeworth'...
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In the following essay, Cronin singles out the specifically Irish characteristics of Edgeworth's; Castle Rackrent, including a "devouring interest in speech" and the "absen...
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In the following essay, Harden focuses on Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800), extolling the novel as the first in which Irish provincial life and character are carefully observed and depi...
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."..for we have rights drawn from the soil and sky;
the use, the pace, the patient years of labour,
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this is our country also, nowhere else;
and we shall not be outcast on the world."
John Hew...
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Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale taken from facts and from the manners of the Irish squires before the year 1782
Critical Essay by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin
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