Elizabeth Gaskell: 'Mary Barton'
Richard Gravil
Jan 2007 · Humanities-Ebooks LLP · AI-narrated by Mason (from Google)
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The Book considers what it meant to be a Unitarian in the hungry forties, what Gaskell understood of Chartism and' political economy'; and attitudes to women's rights. It discusses the many ambiguities and instabilities in the book - suggesting where the reader may need to take issue with some of the standard critical assumptions about Gaskell's text, and considers how she might be compared to Dickens - and what Dickens learned from her.And it discusses some contemporary (i.e. Victorian) and recent critical approaches to the book. The aim is to leave the reader with a great deal of respect for a novel that is sometimes underestimated - while pointing out some of its real departures from the best practice of Realist writers, practices that Mrs Gaskell herself did much to invent.
About the author
Richard Gravil was the Chairman of the Wordsworth Conference Foundation, and CEO of Humanities-Ebooks. He was the author of Wordsworth’s Bardic Vocation, 1787–1842 (2003 and 2015), and Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility (2010). He edited or co-edited eleven volumes of which the most recent is The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth , co-edited with Daniel Robinson (2015).
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