The AbsenteeOxford University Press, 2001 - 315 sidor Lord Clonbrony and his ambitious, worldy wife lead an extravagant social life in London on the proceeds of their estates in Ireland. Their son, Lord Colambre, refusing to marry the heiress arranged for him by his mother, decides instead to investigate, incognito, the management of the familyestates in Ireland. Appalled by the corruption, mismanagement, and poverty he discovers, he sets about finding a solution to his father's debts and the family's wilful indifference. Maria Edgeworth's classic novel combines a fast-miving depiction of national manners with a brilliantly witty expose of the pernicious system of absentee landownership. |
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... present novel the evidence is so deeply embedded as to require sustained excavation . Indeed , if the book of Esther is a sub - text or mythic ground upon which the present novel is raised , then the edifice is distinctly ironic , not ...
... present novel the evidence is so deeply embedded as to require sustained excavation . Indeed , if the book of Esther is a sub - text or mythic ground upon which the present novel is raised , then the edifice is distinctly ironic , not ...
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... present novel the evidence is so deeply embedded as to require sustained excavation . Indeed , if the book of Esther is a sub - text or mythic ground upon which the present novel is raised , then the edifice is distinctly ironic , not ...
... present novel the evidence is so deeply embedded as to require sustained excavation . Indeed , if the book of Esther is a sub - text or mythic ground upon which the present novel is raised , then the edifice is distinctly ironic , not ...
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... presents - a bird , a mouse , a frog , and five arrows . 12 These cryptic offerings are interpreted variously , but in the end the baffled invader has to withdraw , depleted and humiliated . Relations between Britain and Ireland had ...
... presents - a bird , a mouse , a frog , and five arrows . 12 These cryptic offerings are interpreted variously , but in the end the baffled invader has to withdraw , depleted and humiliated . Relations between Britain and Ireland had ...
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... present which necessarily lies out of view . In terms of literature the problem is that of closure , of a work's effecting its own termination while suggesting that relations with reality are actually about to be enhanced and ex- tended ...
... present which necessarily lies out of view . In terms of literature the problem is that of closure , of a work's effecting its own termination while suggesting that relations with reality are actually about to be enhanced and ex- tended ...
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... present day , and his name is judiciously given to the good agent in The Absentee through whom alone continuity between past administration of the estates and Colambre's taking up residence is maintained . An awareness of Burke as ...
... present day , and his name is judiciously given to the good agent in The Absentee through whom alone continuity between past administration of the estates and Colambre's taking up residence is maintained . An awareness of Burke as ...
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THE ABSENTEE | xlvii |
Textual Note | 263 |
The Tradition of Grace Nugent | 272 |
Maria Edgeworths Notes for Essay on the genius Style of Burke | 278 |
Explanatory Notes | 281 |
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