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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... thought of as provincial Irish literature to some unexpectedly diverse European movements of thought . Fashionable London during the wars against Napoleon is the novel's starting - point . Rural Ireland is the ultimate destination and ...
... thought of as provincial Irish literature to some unexpectedly diverse European movements of thought . Fashionable London during the wars against Napoleon is the novel's starting - point . Rural Ireland is the ultimate destination and ...
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... a cardinal value of romantic thought and feeling , a value not diminished by a contem- porary sense of disintegration , change , and proliferation . The 6 Ibid . 29.2.1812 . political Union , in other words , is not simply INTRODUCTION ...
... a cardinal value of romantic thought and feeling , a value not diminished by a contem- porary sense of disintegration , change , and proliferation . The 6 Ibid . 29.2.1812 . political Union , in other words , is not simply INTRODUCTION ...
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... thought of as Irish places , but we should note also that they are highly particularized ones . Partly , this facilitates the apparently fictional status of the places - few English readers will have suspected that they were any more ...
... thought of as Irish places , but we should note also that they are highly particularized ones . Partly , this facilitates the apparently fictional status of the places - few English readers will have suspected that they were any more ...
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... thought adequate for Jane Austen . The resolution of the plot inscribes the author's family's survival of very immediate military crisis.16 We can now be more confident in suggesting that the suppressed Christian name of Mr Burke the ...
... thought adequate for Jane Austen . The resolution of the plot inscribes the author's family's survival of very immediate military crisis.16 We can now be more confident in suggesting that the suppressed Christian name of Mr Burke the ...
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... thought marginal , provincial , or just incompetent . For like the altar - pieces of baroque Ger- many , and the cryptic fictions of American puritanism , it is dualistic in its acknowledgement and denial of rival worlds and divided ...
... thought marginal , provincial , or just incompetent . For like the altar - pieces of baroque Ger- many , and the cryptic fictions of American puritanism , it is dualistic in its acknowledgement and denial of rival worlds and divided ...
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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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