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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... relation to all three of these areas of operation . It is set altern- ately in England and Ireland , and it brings together ideas of social education and of woman's particular talents in advanc- ing social and moral development . This ...
... relation to all three of these areas of operation . It is set altern- ately in England and Ireland , and it brings together ideas of social education and of woman's particular talents in advanc- ing social and moral development . This ...
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... relation be- tween the Irish eighteenth century and its celebration later in the work of W. B. Yeats . Figures whom we believe we know intimately , such as Edmund Burke , and figures whom we are inclined to forget in the Irish context ...
... relation be- tween the Irish eighteenth century and its celebration later in the work of W. B. Yeats . Figures whom we believe we know intimately , such as Edmund Burke , and figures whom we are inclined to forget in the Irish context ...
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... relations . Yet the analogy was rarely used , and even in the 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 ...
... relations . Yet the analogy was rarely used , and even in the 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 ...
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... relations . Yet the analogy was rarely used , and even in the 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 ...
... relations . Yet the analogy was rarely used , and even in the 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 ...
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... Relations between Britain and Ireland had long been discussed in terms of the classical contrast of culture and bar- barism . To the Elizabethans , the Irish were barbarians , but by the eighteenth century cultivated descendants of the ...
... Relations between Britain and Ireland had long been discussed in terms of the classical contrast of culture and bar- barism . To the Elizabethans , the Irish were barbarians , but by the eighteenth century cultivated descendants of the ...
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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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