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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn --- Criticism and interpretation
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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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This pioneering study, described as 'a model of feminist criticism' (The Year's Work in English Studies) on first publication, revealed Gaskell as an important social analyst who deliberately challenged the Victorian disjunction between public and private ethical values, who maintained a steady resistance to aggressive authority, advocating female friendship, rational motherhood and the power of speech as forces for social change.Since 1987, Gaskell's work has risen from minor to major status. This new edition presents the original text (except for bibliographical updating) together with a new
Literature --- Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- 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. --- Elizabeth Gaskell. --- authority. --- ethical values. --- female friendship. --- motherhood. --- political analysis. --- power of speech. --- rational motherhood. --- social analyst. --- social change.
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