Maria Edgeworth and the romance of real life
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Maria Edgeworth's fiction came from places and people she knew, an "improbable factuality" that collected facts and shaped them with romantic sensibility. Traditional scholarship of the late 18th and early 19th centuries tends to focus on texts moved by truth and probability, but Edgeworth chose another basis.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2001
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Metaphoricity and the romance of property in 'The Old Manor House'
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Charlotte Smith's 1793 novel 'The Old Manor House' can be seen as a new type of romantic novel, the "property romance," where the chief object romanticized is inheritable property. Love and male primogeniture are portrayed as fictions in this book to render them more insubstantial than cultural power.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2001
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Edgeworth's Ireland: history, popular culture, and secret codes
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Maria Edgeworth's portrayals of Ireland have many indirect references, using allusion and encryption generally unnoticed by scholars. Edgeworth's Irish stories incorporated ballads, United Irish political propaganda, and the history of her family to produce records of a hybrid people.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2001
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