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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
Date: 20000101
Author:ROBERT WELCH
big house,
a theme in Anglo-Irish literature referring to the big houses of the ascendancy , reflecting the anxieties and uncertainties of the Protestant landowning class in their decline, from the late 18th cent., through Catholic Emancipation , the Tithe War , the Famine , the Land League , and the growth of modern militant Irish nationalism, to the founding of the Irish State . Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800) initiated enduring conventions in Anglo-Irish literature : the decaying house and a declining gentry family; the improvident, often absentee, landlord; and the rise of a ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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