Carolyn Lambert

The Meanings of Home in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this beautifully written study, Carolyn Lambert explores the ways in which Elizabeth Gaskell challenges the nineteenth-century cultural construct of the home as a domestic sanctuary offering protection from the stresses and strains of the external world. Gaskell's fictional homes often fail to provide a place of safety: doors and windows are ambiguous openings through which death can enter, and are potent signifiers of entrapment as well as protective barriers. The underlying fragility of Gaskell's concept of home is illustrated by her narratives of homelessness, a state she uses to represent psychological, social, and emotional separation.

By drawing on Gaskell's novels, letters, and non-fiction writings, Lambert shows how her detailed descriptions of domestic interiors allow for nuanced and unconventional interpretations of character and behaviour. Lambert argues that Gaskell's own experience was that of an outsider whose own difficulties are reflected in her multi-faceted and complex portrayals of home in her fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Victorian Secrets
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781906469689
• Artikelnr.: 61952210

Autorenporträt

Carolyn Lambert is a visiting lecturer at the University of Brighton where she teaches nineteenth-century literature. She is the author of The Meanings of Home in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction (2013) and co-editor with Marion Shaw of For Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women (2017). She has a chapter entitled 'Female Voices in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton' in a forthcoming publication from Bloomsbury edited by Adrienne E Gavin and Carolyn W de la Oulton.