
Elizabeth Gaskell
Jane Spencer(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 16. February 1993
Book
Hardback
168 pages
978-0-333-37946-2 (ISBN)
Description
Elizabeth Gaskell has been presented in many different terms: as a timid, conventional Victorian woman and as a feminist critic of her society, as a chartist sympathizer and as an apologist for class privilege. This new study of Gaskell's major work argues that, as a Unitarian and as a middle-class woman, she held a number of warring allegiances that show themselves in complexities and contradictions in her writing, but that, towards the end of her career, she found ways of resolving for herself the tensions beween social duty and artistic delight. A feminist perspective is given on her novels and biography. By the author of "The Rise of the Woman Novelist from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen".
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Adult education
Dimensions
Height: 186 mm
Width: 123 mm
Weight
163 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-37946-2 (9780333379462)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Warring members - Elizabeth Gaskell, writer; giving utterance - "Mary Barton"; improper women - "Ruth" and "The Life of Charlotte Bronte"; changes - "Cranford" and "North and South"; history and tyranny - "Sylvia's Lovers"; household goodness - "Cousin Phillis", "Wives and Daughters".