Castle Rackrent

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf novel
gptkbp:adaptation theatrical adaptations
film adaptations
television adaptations
stage adaptations
radio adaptations
gptkbp:analyzes feminist readings
post-colonial readings
historical readings
class readings
gptkbp:author gptkb:Maria_Edgeworth
gptkbp:character Lady Rackrent
Sir Murtagh Rackrent
Sir Patrick Rackrent
the landlord
the steward
the narrator's family
the tenants
Thady_Quirk
the_Rackrent_family
gptkbp:characterDevelopment satirical portrayal
gptkbp:critical_reception well-received
gptkbp:cultural_impact influenced later writers
gptkbp:culturalHeritage referenced in other works
gptkbp:genre historical fiction
gptkbp:hasVersion published_in_London
gptkbp:historicalContext gptkb:Anglo-Irish_society
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Castle Rackrent
gptkbp:influence gptkb:Irish_literature
gptkb:F._Scott_Fitzgerald
gptkb:James_Joyce
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:Irish_nationalism
satirical literature
realism in literature
gptkbp:inspiration real-life estate management
gptkbp:ISBN 978-0140439112
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:narrativeStyle first-person
unreliable narrator
epistolary elements
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Maria_Edgeworth
gptkbp:pageCount approximately 200
gptkbp:plot depicts the impact of absentee landlords
explores themes of inheritance
uses humor and irony
focuses_on_the_decline_of_the_Rackrent_family
highlights_social_issues_in_Ireland
gptkbp:publishedBy 1800
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Joseph_Johnson
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Ireland
gptkbp:significance early example of the novel form
gptkbp:theme land ownership
social class