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Reluctant Soldiers and Forgotten Intertexts: The Question of Ireland in Edgeworth's The Absentee and...

Reluctant Soldiers and Forgotten Intertexts: The Question of Ireland in Edgeworth's The Absentee and...

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Reluctant Soldiers and Forgotten Intertexts: The Question of Ireland in Edgeworth's The Absentee and "The Prussian Vase"

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Reluctant Soldiers and Forgotten Intertexts: The Question of Ireland in Edgeworth's The Absentee and "The Prussian Vase"

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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

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The Eighteenth century (Lubbock), 2021-04, Vol.62 (1), p.21-42

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English

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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

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This paper examines Maria Edgeworth's antimilitarism and consciousness as a colonial woman writer by juxtaposing her Irish tale The Absentee (1812) and an understudied tale for young people, "The Prussian Vase" (1801). Against the political turbulence of the years from the 1798 Irish Uprising to the publication of The Absentee, Edgeworth's reluctan...

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Reluctant Soldiers and Forgotten Intertexts: The Question of Ireland in Edgeworth's The Absentee and "The Prussian Vase"

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2785266413

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2785266413

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0193-5380,1935-0201

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1935-0201

DOI

10.1353/ecy.2021.0001

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