Elizabeth Gaskell's smaller stories / Carolyn Lambert.
Lambert, Carolyn (College teacher)
2021
PR4711
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Title Elizabeth Gaskell's smaller stories / Carolyn Lambert.
Author Lambert, Carolyn (College teacher)
ISBN 9783030797058 (electronic bk.)
3030797058 (electronic bk.)
303079704X
9783030797041
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79705-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-79705-8 doi
Call Number PR4711
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.8
Summary This book re-locates Elizabeth Gaskells smaller stories in the literary and cultural context of the nineteenth century. While Gaskell is recognised as one of the major novelists of her time, the short stories that make up a large proportion of her published work have not yet received the critical attention they deserve. This study re-claims them as an indispensable part of her literary output that enables us to better contextualize and assess her achievement holistically as a highly-skilled woman of letters. The periodicals in which Gaskells shorter pieces were published offer a microcosm of nineteenth-century society, and Gaskell took full advantage of the medium to apply a consistent and barbed challenge to cultural and gendered constructs of roles and social behaviour. Although her eminently readable prose still flows easily in her short stories, it is less likely to elide the sharp corners of domestic violence, the disabling experiences of women, the pain of death and loss, and the complications of family life. Carolyn Lambert is the author of The Meanings of Home in Elizabeth Gaskells Fiction (2013), co-editor with Marion Shaw of For Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women (2018) and the author of Frances Trollope (2020).
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ELIZABETH GASKELLS SMALLER STORIES.
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1 Introduction
2 The Gothic and the Ghostly
3 Fairy Tales
4 Narrating Sexuality
5 Narrative Architecture
6 Conclusion.

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