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Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford
Tracing the publishing history of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford from its initial 1851-53 serialization in Dickens's Household Words through its numerous editions and adaptations, Recchio focuses especially the text's deployment in support of ideas related to nation and national identity on both sides of the Atlantic. Making extensive use of primary materials, Recchio offers a convincing micro-history of the way English literature was positioned in England and the United States to support an Anglocentric cultural project.
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Adapting Gaskell
\"This book offers a range of perspectives on Elizabeth Gaskell and adaptation. The contributors Alan Shelston, Raffaella Aninucci, Thomas Recchio, Brenda McKay, Katherine Byrne, Patricia Marchesi, Marcia Marchesi and Loredana Salis discuss the afterlives of Gaskells fiction, from the author as adaptor of her own work to the role of the BBC in re-inventing Gaskells narratives.
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Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell
Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. Julie Nash shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of servants in short fiction and novels such as Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Belinda, and Helen and Gaskell's North and South and Cranford. Servant characters, Nash contends, enable these writers to give voice to the contradictions inherent in the popular paternalistic philosophy of their times because the situation of domestic servitude itself embodies such inconsistencies. Servants, whose labor was essential to the economic and social function of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British society, made up the largest category of workers in England by the nineteenth century and yet were expected to be socially invisible. At the same time, they lived in the same houses as their masters and mistresses and were privy to the most intimate details of their lives. Both Edgeworth and Gaskell created servant characters who challenge the social hierarchy, thus exposing the potential for dehumanization and corruption inherent in the paternalistic philosophy. Nash's study opens up important avenues for future scholars of women's fiction in the nineteenth century.
Contents: General editor's preface; Introduction: Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Gaskell and servants in the 'good old days'; Servants and paternalism; 'Standing in distress between tragedy and comedy': servants in Edgeworth's novels of manners; 'Submitting to fate': servants in Gaskell's domestic fiction; 'True and loyal to the family': servants in Maria Edgeworth's Irish novels; 'Mutual duties': servants and labor relations in Gaskell's 'condition of England novels'; Conclusion: 'well done thou good and faithful servant'; Bibliography; Index.
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The Victorian and the romantic : a memoir, a love story, and a friendship across time
\"History meets memoir in two irresistible true-life romances--one set in 19th century Rome, one in present-day Paris and London--linked by a bond between women writers a hundred years apart.\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell
In the last few decades Elizabeth Gaskell has become a figure of growing importance in the field of Victorian literary studies. She produced work of great variety and scope in the course of a highly successful writing career that lasted for about twenty years from the mid-1840s to her unexpected death in 1865. The essays in this Companion draw on recent advances in biographical and bibliographical studies of Gaskell and cover the range of her impressive and varied output as a writer of novels, biography, short stories, and letters. The volume, which features well-known scholars in the field of Gaskell studies, focuses throughout on her narrative versatility and her literary responses to the social, cultural, and intellectual transformations of her time. This Companion will be invaluable for students and scholars of Victorian literature, and includes a chronology and guide to further reading.
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