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Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton/North and South: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism

Autor Alison Chapman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 1999
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781840460377
ISBN-10: 1840460377
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:1999
Editura: Macmillan Education UK
Colecția Red Globe Press
Seria Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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.

Notă biografică

ALISON CHAPMAN is a Lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

From the publication of her first novel,Mary Barton, in 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell's work has been the subject of critical debate and, often, critical misappropriation. With its raw depiction of urban poverty in the early 1840s, the novel troubled critics and commentators who found such matters unsuitable for treatment by a woman novelist.North and South, published in 1855, saw Gaskell again dealing with social unrest, in the conflicts between the rural south and industrialised north of England. In a society ill-at-ease with women who engaged in social criticism and observation, Gaskell's reputation as a novelist came to rest largely on her other, less contentious, writings. Only in recent decades has the range and depth of her talent begun to be explored in ways that allow these two works to stand among the great novels of the nineteenth century.

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.

Caracteristici

Includes a comprehensive collection of critical essays, reviews and articles, so providing the student with the most important secondary material on the text
Accessibly written editorial narrative links the extracts, highlighting important concepts and shifts in critical thinking
Places the secondary criticism within a cultural and historical context