Patsy Stoneman

Elizabeth Gaskell

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. This new edition presents the original text (except for bibliographical updating) together with a new and extensive critical 'Afterword'.

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This augmented edition of Patsy Stoneman's pioneering Elizabeth Gaskell presents the original 1987 text unchanged (apart from bibliographical updating) together with an extensive new 'Afterword' surveying Gaskell criticism over the last twenty years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780719074479
• ISBN-10: 0719074479
• Artikelnr.: 22757884

Autorenporträt

Dr. Patsy Stoneman is an Emeritus Reader in English at the University of Hull, where she taught for most of her career. She has published widely on Brontë topics and is Vice President of the Brontë Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the second edition Preface to the first edition References and
abbreviations 1. Reading Elizabeth Gaskell: the story so far and some new
suggestions 2. Woman and writer: blending the selves 3. Two nations and
separate spheres: class and gender in Elizabeth Gaskell's work 4. Mary
Barton (1848) 5. Cranford (1851) 6. Ruth (1853) 7. North and South (1854)
8. Sylvia's Lovers (1863) 9. Cousin Phillis (1863) 10. Wives and Daughters
(1865) Conclusion Afterword: the critical debate, 1985-2004