@article{1439247,
      author = {Lambert, Carolyn},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1439247},
      title = {Elizabeth Gaskell's smaller stories /},
      abstract = {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).},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79705-8},
      recid = {1439247},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}