Elizabeth Gaskell, Victorian culture, and the art of fiction
Subtitle: original essays for the bicentenary
By: Sandro Jung (ed.).
Contributors: Shelston, Alan
Publisher: Academia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gent
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9789038216294
Subjects: History; English literature; Criticism and interpretation; Women and literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where next in Gaskell studies? / Alan Shelston; title: The presence of Wordsworth in Elizabeth Gaskell's early writing /  Irene Wiltshire; title: Gaskell the journalist /  Joanne Shattock; title: Physical and linguistic metamorphosis in Gaskell's The grey woman /  Renzo d'Agnillo; title: Liminal femininity in Gaskell's Mary Barton and Wives and daughters / Sandro Jung; title: Domestic humour in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford / Olivia Malfait; title: "With arms entwined": deadly deceit and romantic friendship in Ruth and Lois the witch / Heather Levy; title: Deviant femininity as a metaphor for female liberation in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth / Rezzan Kocaöner Silkü; title: Class act: servants and mistresses in the works of Elizabeth Gaskell / Dorice Williams Elliott; title: North and south: an industrial version of the Victorian gentleman /  Raffaella Antinucci; title: The conflicted duties of the caretaker in Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë and letters / Amanda J. Collins; title: Elizabeth Gaskell's tragic vision /  Francesco Marroni; title: The literature of literacy  / Deborah Frenkel; title: Popular evolutionism: scientific, legal, and literary discourse in Gaskell's Wives and daughters /  Phoebe Poon.