Alison Chapman

Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton-North and South

Herausgeber: Chapman, Alison

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this Readers' Guide, Alison Chapman introduces and discusses the patterns of critical attention that Gaskell's work has attracted across the past hundred and fifty years. Beginning with contemporary press and critical reviews, and treatments by the Victorian and early twentieth-century literary establishment, the Guide sets out a background for the most recent and challenging reassessments of these novels, bringing the reader fully up to date on current critical approaches.

Produktdetails

• Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
• Verlag: Macmillan Education UK / Red Globe Press / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-84046-037-7
• 1999
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781840460377
• ISBN-10: 1840460377
• Artikelnr.: 21640687

Autorenporträt

Alison Chapman

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Reading (as) Conflict: Approaching Gaskell's Fiction.- Telling Tales: Contemporary Reviews.- A Proper Authoress: Biographical Criticism.- 'The Unhappy State of Things': Marxist Literary Criticism and the 'Social-Problem' Novel.- Feminist Neglect and Feminist Celebration: The 1980s.- Recovering Contexts: New Historicism in the 1990s.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Acknowledgements.- Index.