Harrington by Maria Edgeworth PAPERBACK 9781551114071

Harrington\nby Maria Edgeworth\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Maria Edgeworth\nTitle: Harrington\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Historical romance\nPublisher: Broadview Press Ltd\nPublication year: 2004\nISBN-13: 9781551114071\nISBN-10: 1551114070\nRRP: \u00A329.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nHarrington (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.\n\nThis Broadview editio.