Lost in translation: Caroline Percy's "unwounded ear" and voltaire's orientalist intertext in Patronage.(Critical Essay)

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From: ANQ
Date: 20050101
Author:Cass, Jeffrey

Critics have long compared the work of Jane Austen to Maria Edgeworth, most often not to Edgeworth's advantage and principally because of her loudly persistent moralism. Such a situation prompts Margaret Anne Doody to suggest that "the readership during the Regency period wanted to be amused, and Edgeworth "met this demand through didacticism" (88). While Austen cleverly (and wittily) embeds her political discourse within the safe confines of the country house, what Gilbert and Gubar have referred to as her "cover story" (146-83), Edgeworth allows herself greater range because she ...

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