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Harrington

By Maria Edgeworth , Susan Manly

Book information

Publisher
Broadview Press
Year
2004
ISBN
1-55111-407-0, 9781551114071
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1372921 bytes)
Pages
325\328
Time added
2018-02-18 10:30:00

Description

Harrington (1817) is the personal narrative of a recovering anti-Semite, a young man whose phobia of Jews is instilled in early childhood and who must unlearn his irrational prejudice when he falls in love with the daughter of a Spanish Jew. In this novel, Edgeworth attempts to challenge prejudice and to show how literary representations affect public policy, while at the same time interrogating contemporary understandings of freedom in English society. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a judicious selection of appendices, including correspondence between Edgeworth and Rachel Mordecai Lazarus, excerpts from John Toland’s Letters to Serena and Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews, an excerpt from Isaac D’Israeli’s article on Moses Mendelssohn, and contemporary reviews of the novel.

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