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Item Details
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ELIZABETH GASKELL
MARY BARTON |
| By: |
Richard Gravil, Charles Moseley (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£4.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1847600107 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847600103 |
| Publisher: |
HUMANITIES - EBOOKS.CO.UK |
| Pub. date: |
17 March, 2007 |
| Series: |
Literature Insights |
| Pages: |
106 |
| Description: |
This study guide shows Mary Barton to be a much more conflicted novel than it is usually thought to be, takes issue with critical accounts of Gaskell's views, and promotes her as an author whose grasp of the political and economic issues of the period runs much deeper than is usually acknowledged by the critics who delight in patronising her. |
| Synopsis: |
Part 1 of this book considers what it meant to be a Unitarian in the hungry forties, what Gaskell understood of Chartism and A political economyA" and attitudes to women's rights. Part 2, on literary strategies, 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. Part 3 reads the novel closely, raising numerous questions about how we might take particular passages. Part 4 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. |
| Illustrations: |
2 illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Humanities - Ebooks.co.uk |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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