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With her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814). Politically risky, stylistically innovative, and wonderfully entertaining, the novel changes the focus of conflict in Ireland from religion to class, and boldly predicts the rise of the Irish Catholic bourgeoisie. The second edition now includes new notes informed by the latest scholarship.
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Daniel McGovern
reviewed Castle Rackrent on February 29, 2020
Castle Rackrent
This is a short novel but it seems long like a visit to the dentist might only last 15 minutes but subjectively it lasts for three days.
I read this so you don't have to. It's a comic monologue by an ancient servant to the Irish Rackrent family. He has tunnel vision, all he is interested in is his master and his master's money, i.e. lack of it. There is no plot, it's just this guy got drunk, that guy got drunk, and this guy got drunk. Then this guy gambled all his money away. Then that guy married a lady for her money but she didn't have any. Then they all got drunk.
Some things this longwinded bore says are quite funny, in a quite funny kind of way.
The introduction says "Castle Rackrent may well be one of the most famous unread novels in English". I think you may have got the reason why by now.
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