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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,

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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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This book is the first full-length study to focus on the representation of masculinity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels. In examining Gaskell’s understanding of masculine identity as a social construct and considering how her writing engages with Victorian ideologies of gender, this book demonstrates that Gaskell defies an essentialist approach to gender and instead explores masculinity over time, genre, region, and class, making it clear that masculinity is not monolithic but relational, culturally constructed, and dependent on many contexts. It analyses Gaskell’s depiction of what it means to be a ‘man’ and a ‘gentleman’, exploring Mary Barton, North and South, Ruth, Cousin Phillis, Sylvia’s Lovers, and Wives and Daughters, as well as contemporary Victorian works and key contexts such as sympathy, historic change, and industrialism. The target audiences are academics, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students and research specialists, and it will most appeal to Victorian Literature, Gender Studies, and Masculinity Studies disciplines. .

Literature, Modern—19th century. --- British literature. --- Culture. --- Gender. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Culture and Gender. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Masculinity in literature. --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Masculinity (Psychology) in 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,

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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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We think of economic theory as a scientific speciality accessible only to experts, but Victorian writers commented on economic subjects with great interest. Gordon Bigelow focuses on novelists Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell and compares their work with commentaries on the Irish famine (1845-1852). Bigelow argues that at this moment of crisis the rise of economics depended substantially on concepts developed in literature. These works all criticized the systematized approach to economic life that the prevailing political economy proposed. Gradually the romantic views of human subjectivity, described in the novels, provided the foundation for a new theory of capitalism based on the desires of the individual consumer. Bigelow's argument stands out by showing how the discussion of capitalism in these works had significant influence not just on public opinion, but on the rise of economic theory itself.

Economics in literature --- Economics --- English fiction --- History --- History and criticism --- Dickens, Charles, --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Dickens, Charles --- Boz --- Dickens, Charles John Huffam --- 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, --- Knowledge --- Economics. --- Ireland --- Irish Free State --- Historiography. --- Dikensi, Čʻarlz, --- Dickens, Karol, --- Dikens, Charlz, --- Ti-keng-ssu, --- Digengsi, --- Dikkens, Charlz, --- Dikensas, Čarlzas, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārls, --- Ṭikkan̲cu, Cārlacu, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārlas, --- Диккенс, Чарлз, --- דיקינס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקנס, ַ צ׳רלז --- דיקנס, טשרלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלז, --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקענס, טש --- דיקענס, טשארלז --- דיקענס, טשארלז, --- דיקענס, טש., --- דיקקענס, טשארלז --- טשרלס, דיקנס --- チャールズ.ディケンズ, --- 狄更斯查尔斯, --- Boz, --- Sparks, Timothy, --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Economics in literature. --- History and criticism.