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This book re-locates Elizabeth Gaskell's 'smaller stories' in the literary and cultural context of the nineteenth century. While Gaskell is recognised as one of the major novelists of her time, the short stories that make up a large proportion of her published work have not yet received the critical attention they deserve. This study re-claims them as an indispensable part of her literary output that enables us to better contextualize and assess her achievement holistically as a highly-skilled woman of letters. The periodicals in which Gaskell's shorter pieces were published offer a microcosm of nineteenth-century society, and Gaskell took full advantage of the medium to apply a consistent and barbed challenge to cultural and gendered constructs of roles and social behaviour. Although her eminently readable prose still flows easily in her short stories, it is less likely to elide the sharp corners of domestic violence, the disabling experiences of women, the pain of death and loss, and the complications of family life.

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Author of Mary Barton, --- Gaskell, E. C. --- Gaskell, Elizabeth, --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson, --- Gaskell, --- Mills, Cotton Mather, --- Stevenson, Elizabeth, --- Gaskell, Isabel C., --- Stevenson, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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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.

Women and literature --- History --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Thematology --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- Gaskell, Elizabeth --- Author of Mary Barton, --- Gaskell, E. C. --- Gaskell, Elizabeth, --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson, --- Gaskell, --- Mills, Cotton Mather, --- Stevenson, Elizabeth, --- Gaskell, Isabel C., --- Stevenson, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Writers --- Book

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Film adaptations --- Stage adaptations --- Adaptations, Stage --- Drama --- Literature --- Authors and theater --- History and criticism. --- Technique --- Adaptations --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Author of Mary Barton, --- Gaskell, E. C. --- Gaskell, Elizabeth, --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson, --- Gaskell, --- Mills, Cotton Mather, --- Stevenson, Elizabeth, --- Gaskell, Isabel C., --- Stevenson, Elizabeth Cleghorn,

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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, among others.

Household employees in literature. --- Social change in literature. --- Domestics in literature --- Edgeworth, Maria, --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Author of Mary Barton, --- Gaskell, E. C. --- Gaskell, Elizabeth, --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson, --- Gaskell, --- Mills, Cotton Mather, --- Stevenson, Elizabeth, --- Gaskell, Isabel C., --- Stevenson, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Edgeworth, --- Author of Practical education, --- Practical education, Author of, --- Author of Letters for literary ladies, --- Letters for literary ladies, Author of, --- Edgeworth, Eliza, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Criticism and interpretation --- 820 "18" GASKELL, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN --- Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--GASKELL, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN --- 820 "18" GASKELL, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--GASKELL, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN --- Literature --- Author of Mary Barton, --- Gaskell, E. C. --- Gaskell, Elizabeth, --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson, --- Gaskell, --- Mills, Cotton Mather, --- Stevenson, Elizabeth, --- Gaskell, Isabel C., --- Stevenson, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Feminism and literature - Great Britain --- Women and literature - Great Britain --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, - 1810-1865 - Criticism and interpretation --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, - 1810-1865