A fiction subgenre of a realistic nature that focuses on the home scene, domestic realism evolved from the reaction against Romanticism that occurred in the mid-19th century. Following the preoccupation of the Romantic writers (1789–1837) with the superiority of intuition… Read More ›
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Analysis of Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth broke new narrative ground with her 1800 novel, Castle Rackrent. While her methodology of developing an imaginary hero who writes a memoir “edited” by an author had been popular since Robinson Crusoe (1719), she developed a new approach… Read More ›
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