Elizabeth Gaskell: 'Mary Barton'

Richard Gravil

2007年1月 · Humanities-Ebooks

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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.

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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).