Evil and Its Variations in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell
Sesquicentennial Essays
Edited by Mitsuharu Matsuoka
Osaka, JP: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 2015, xxv+538 pages
ISBN 978-4-271-21039-9
5,833 JPY

ContentsForeword
J. Hillis MILLER (University of California Irvine, US)
PrefaceShirley FOSTER (President of the Gaskell Society, UK)
Chronology
Nancy S. WEYANT (Bloomsburg University, US)
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Mary Barton (1848)
1. Veronica HOYT (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
English Tea and Chinese Opium: A Contrast between Good and Evil in Mary Barton?
2. Fang LI (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea)
Dives and Lazarus: Indifference Novelized as Evil in Mary Barton
3. Francesco MARRONI (University of Pescara, Italy)
Evil and Ontological Loneliness in Mary Barton
The Moorland Cottage (1850)
4. Thomas RECCHIO (University of Connecticut, US)
Wordsworthian Pastoral and the Problem of Evil in The Moorland Cottage
Cranford (1851-53)
5. Yuji MIYAMARU (Chuo University, Japan)‘The World Must Be Very Bad’: The Rules Dominating Cranford
6. Emily MORRIS (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)“A Very Pleasant-Looking Dragon”: Ethnography, Humor, Evil, and Otherness in Cranford
7. Mark WEEKS (Nagoya University, Japan)
Cranford’s ‘Organic Community’ and the Dark Spectre of TimeRuth (1853)
8. Andrzej DINIEJKO (Warsaw University, Poland)
Ruth and the Fallen Woman Question in Victorian England
9. Akiko KAWASAKI (Komazawa University, Japan)
The Neutralisation of Illness in Ruth
10. E. Holly PIKE (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)“Exposed to Corruption”: Evil as Contagion in Ruth
North and South (1854-55)
11. Christine HUGUET (University of Lille III, France)
North and South: Gaskell’s Version of the Felix Culpa?
12. Mary H. KUHLMAN (Creighton University, US)
Deception and Discord in North and South13. Mitsuharu MATSUOKA (Nagoya University, Japan)“There’s Good and Bad in Everything”: The Status Quo as a Necessary Evil in North and SouthThe Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)
14. Tatsuhiro OHNO (Kumamoto University, Japan)
A Topic-Modelling Analysis of the Sacred and the Secular in The Life of Charlotte Brontë
15. Matsuto SOWA (Kinjo Gakuin University, Japan)
Poor Brontë and Preachy Gaskell: Evils in The Life of Charlotte Brontë
16. Manami TAMURA (Nihon University, Japan)
The Life of Charlotte Brontë: Life Writing and Ill WillMy Lady Ludlow (1858)
17. Shu-chuan YAN (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Pernicious Literacy and Working-Class Education in My Lady Ludlow
Sylvia’s Lovers (1863)
18. Akiko KIMURA (Waseda University, Japan)
The Lie and Discourses of Evil in Sylvia’s Lovers
19. Pirjo KOIVUVAARA (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
The Evils of Drink in Sylvia’s Lovers
20. Fumie TAMAI (Doshisha University, Japan)
Sylvia’s Lovers: Liberty, Violence, and the Problem of Democracy
A Dark Night’s Work (1863)
21. Anna KOUSTINOUDI (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
The Question of Evil in A Dark Night’s Work: Psychic Investments in Societal/Social andFamilial Bonds

Cousin Phillis (1864)
22. Lizhen CHEN (Hangzhou Normal University, China)
Narrating Desire: Secrets and Disillusion in Cousin Phillis
23. Yoko HATANO (Tsukuba Gakuin University, Japan)
Cousin Phillis: The Erosion of Faith at Hope Farm
24. Aya YATSUGI (Matsuyama University, Japan)
Sleeping Beauty and the Evil Influences of Fairy Tales in Cousin Phillis
Wives and Daughters (1864-66)
25. Megumi ARAI (Sophia University, Japan)
That Lady They Call Clare: The Evil Stepmother in Wives and Daughters
26. Mitsuko SUZUKI (Tohoku University, Japan)
Deceit versus Honesty: Women’s Education in Helen and Wives and Daughters
27. Tamara WAGNER (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Tigerish Skin and Burnt Bouquets: Domestic Gothic in Wives and Daughters
Short Stories
28. Anne ENDERWITZ (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Loving “without Thought of Self”: Sin and Repentance in “Lizzie Leigh” and Other Stories
29. Felicity JAMES (University of Leicester, UK)
Evil, Past and Present, in “Lois the Witch” and Other Short Stories
30. Rebecca STYLER (University of Lincoln, UK)
Monstrous Parenting in “The Crooked Branch,” “The Grey Woman,” and “Right at Last”
31. Elmira VASILYEVA (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
Sins and Tales in “The Old Nurse’s Story,” “The Doom of the Griffiths,” and “Crowley
Castle”
Letters
32. Miwa OTA (Chuo University, Japan)
Evil and the “Taste for Beauty and Convenience” in Gaskell’s Letters
Index