New Essays on Maria EdgeworthJulie Nash The essays in this collection examine Maria Edgeworth's ideological contradictions as well as her consistent advocacy of education and reason, in order to open up new avenues of further discussion and study of Edgeworth and her work. |
Contents
Transatlantic Identities and the Epistolary | 31 |
Intersections of the Public and Private | 57 |
Maria Edgeworth and the True Use of Books for Eighteenth | 73 |
A | 93 |
Why Maria | 131 |
Servants in | 161 |
Maria Edgeworth and the Irish Thin Places | 193 |
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