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Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth and the illegitimacy of national ownership.(Irish nationalism in the works of Maria Edgeworth)(Critical Essay)

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From: Criticism
Date: 20020922
Author:Maurer, Sara L.

DURING THE LAST DAYS of his life, Walter Scott's thoughts turned confusedly toward Maria Edgeworth, the author to whom he was so consistently linked in his novel production. Both Scott, with his historical popularizations and fictionalizations of Scottish history, and Edgeworth, with her tales of Anglo-Irish landlords on their Irish estates, were seen as developing the distinct narrative style of the national tale, a popular Romantic genre of the novel set in the Celtic regions of the British Isles. (1) Yet in discussing the female authors of the day, Scott proves unable to ...

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