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Mary Barton de Elizabeth Gaskell

Mary Barton

Autor Elizabeth Gaskell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iul 2022

Imaginea de deschidere a acestui roman ne poartă în Manchesterul anilor 1840, un oraș marcat de contrastul brutal dintre fumul fabricilor și sărăcia lucie a cartierelor muncitorești. Subliniem modul în care Elizabeth Gaskell reușește, încă de la primele pagini, să transforme statistica socială în suferință umană palpabilă. Mary, o tânără care speră la o viață mai bună prin căsătoria cu fiul unui industriaș, devine centrul unui conflict ce depășește sfera domesticului. În tradiția lui George Eliot, în special prin temele din „The Mill on the Floss”, acest roman explorează modul în care alegerile individuale sunt zdrobite de mecanismele rigide ale clasei sociale, însă Gaskell adaugă o dimensiune politică mult mai ascuțită prin figura tatălui, John Barton.

Reținem că această operă de debut nu este doar o dramă romantică, ci un document istoric viu. Structura cărții, completată de apendicele ce includ perspective contemporane de la Friedrich Engels sau Thomas Carlyle, transformă lectura într-o experiență imersivă în epoca industrializării. Față de North and South, unde conflictul dintre Nord și Sud este mediat prin dialog, în Mary Barton tensiunea este mult mai viscerală, culminând cu un act de violență care forțează cititorul să privească direct în abisul inegalității. Credem că forța narațiunii rezidă în onestitatea cu care autoarea refuză soluțiile simple, preferând să exploreze dilemele morale ale unei societăți aflate în plină transformare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9788027344178
ISBN-10: 8027344174
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Chicago Review Press Inc DBA Indepe

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest volum celor care doresc să descopere rădăcinile romanului social victorian. Dincolo de povestea de dragoste tensionată, cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a condiției umane în fața progresului tehnologic nemilos. Este o lectură esențială pentru pasionații de istorie și literatură clasică, oferind un portret autentic al Manchesterului, dublat de un aparat critic deosebit care explică contextul mișcării chartiste.

Despre autor

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), cunoscută și sub numele de Mrs. Gaskell, a fost o figură centrală a literaturii victoriene, renumită pentru capacitatea de a portretiza cu empatie toate straturile societății. Crescută în nordul Angliei, ea a observat direct transformările aduse de revoluția industrială. Debutul său cu Mary Barton i-a adus admirația lui Charles Dickens, în ale cărui publicații și-a tipărit ulterior mare parte din proză. Prietenă apropiată a lui Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell a scris și prima biografie a acesteia. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Cranford și Wives and Daughters, rămâne o sursă inestimabilă pentru istoricii sociali și iubitorii de beletristică deopotrivă.

Descriere

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'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.'Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself: a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, she becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal murder forces her to confront her true feelings and allegiances. Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Notă biografică

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 65) was born in London, but grew up in the north of England. In 1832 she married the Rev. William Gaskell. Published in Dickens' Household Works and a lifelong friend of Charlotte Bronte, Gaskell's finest novel is North and South, also published by Penguin.
Macdonald Daly is Lecturer in Modern Literature at Nottingham University. He has also edited DH Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Kangaroo for Penguin Classics.

Descriere scurtă

Elizabeth Gaskell's remarkable first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life portrays a love that defies the rigid boundaries of class with tragic consequences. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by MacDonald Daly.

Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Mary's dilemma, and the moving portrayal of her father, the embittered and courageous Chartist agitator John Barton, Mary Barton powerfully dramatizes the class divides of the 'hungry forties' as personal tragedy. In its social and political setting, it looks towards Elizabeth Gaskell's great novels of the industrial revolution, in particular North and South.

Macdonald Daly's introduction discusses Gaskell's first novel as a pioneering work in the recognition of the conditions of the poor and working class; this edition also contains full notes and a chronology of Gaskell's life.

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) was born in London, but grew up in the north of England in the village of Knutsford. In 1832 she married the Reverend William Gaskell and had four daughters, and one son who died in infancy. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848, winning the attention of Charles Dickens, and most of her later work was published in his journals. She was also a lifelong friend of Charlotte Brontë, whose biography she wrote.

If you enjoyed Mary Barton, you might like George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, also available in Penguin Classics.

Recenzii

Mary Barton first appeared in 1848, and has since become one of the best known novels on the ‘condition of England,’ part of a nineteenth-century British trend to understand the enormous cultural, economic and social changes wrought by industrialization. Gaskell’s work had great importance to the labour and reform movements, and it influenced writers such as Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle and Charlotte Brontë.
The plot of Mary Barton concerns the poverty and desperation of England’s industrial workers. Fundamentally, however, it revolves around Mary’s personal conflicts. She is already divided between an affection for an industrialist’s son, Henry Carson, and for a man of her own class, Jem Wilson. But Mary’s conflict escalates when her father, a committed trade unionist, is asked to assassinate Henry, who is the son of his unjust employer.

“Another splendid edition from Broadview with the usual high standard of helpful footnotes. Among the appendices in this volume are Gaskell’s letters about writing the novel; contemporary reviews; essays and reports from the 1840s on industrialization, Chartism, emigration, prostitution and conditions in Manchester; brief selections from related fiction and poetry; and a very intelligible short summary of dates and events that shape the novel’s politics.” — Sally Mitchell, Temple University

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Mary Barton
Appendix A:
The Composition of the Novel
  1. Excerpts from Gaskell’s Letters
  2. Parable of Dives and Lazarus
Appendix B:
Contemporary Reviews of the Novel
  1. Athenaeum (21 October 1848)
  2. Examiner (4 November 1848)
  3. Christian Examiner (March 1849)
  4. Edinburgh Review (April 1849)
  5. Fraser’s Magazine (April 1849)
Appendix C:
Social Commentary on Industrialization
  1. Thomas Carlyle, Chapter I, Chartism (1840)
  2. “Emigration—Report of the Poor-Law Commissioners on the Subject,” Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal (15 February 1840)
  3. Joseph Adshead, Distress in Manchester. Evidence (Tabular and Otherwise) of the State of the Labouring Classes in 1840-42 (1842)
  4. Leon Faucher, Manchester in 1844: Its PresentCondition and Future Prospects (1844)
  5. Ralph Barnes Grindrod, The Slaves of the Needle(1844)
  6. Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)
  7. Charles Kingsley, Appeal to the Chartists (12 April 1848)
  8. Caroline Norton, Letters to the Mob (1848)
  9. Morning Chronicle (Thursday, 1 November 1849)
  10. William Rathbone Greg, Employers and Employed (1853)
Appendix D:
Related Fiction and Poetry
  1. Thomas Hood, “Song of the Shirt” (1843)
  2. Charlotte Brontë, Chapters 8 and 19, Shirley (1849)
  3. Charles Dickens, Chapter 4, Hard Times (1854)
  4. George Eliot, Chapter 31, Felix Holt (1866)
Appendix E:
Chartism and Free Trade
Select Bibliography