Castle Rackrent | Castle Rackrent

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Author: Maria Edgeworth
First Published: 1800
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Regional
Time of Work: Eighteenth century
Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Regional fiction, Satire
Subjects: Tradition, Social issues, Class consciousness, Oppression, Eighteenth century, Upper classes, Duty, Inheritance or succession, Loyalty, Castles, Landlords or tenants, Servants, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Ireland or Irish people, Satire, Nobility
Locales: Ireland

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Castle Rackrent. Irish home of the Rackrent family, the novel’s primary setting. The castle symbolizes the relationship of England and Ireland during a historical period when a harsh debate over union of Ireland with Great Britain creates a split among the Irish upper classes.

Regarded as the first regional novel in English, Castle Rackrent spans four generations of the Rackrents, an Anglo- Irish landed gentry family. Although the class of people known as the Anglo-Irish, the wealthy protestant landowners, had ruled Ireland for generations, many...

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