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Edgeworth's Ennui.(Maria Edgeworth's essay)
From: The Explicator
Date: 20050101
Author:Flanagan, Christina
In her essay "Edgeworth's Ireland: History, Popular Culture, and Secret Codes," Marilyn Butler concedes that Maria Edgeworth has "political objectives" in writing her Irish stories. Butler adds that "Edgeworth has other objectives, including but not limited to nationalism, that prove her much more expressively committed than has hitherto appeared to the history, language, culture, and future of Irish people" (268). Butler goes on to say that, in her Irish tale Ennui, Edgeworth "alludes to and incorporates popular culture [...] tradition, folksong, story, legend, nationalist ...
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