Elizabeth Gaskell’s smaller stories 1st ed.

Author

• Lambert, Carolyn

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030797058

Series

Subject(s)

• LITERATURE,MODERN-19TH CENTURY

Notes

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Abstract

This book re-locates Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘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 Gaskell’s 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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (viii, 201 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1 Introduction --
2 The Gothic and the Ghostly --
3 Fairy Tales --
4 Narrating Sexuality --
5 Narrative Architecture --
6 Conclusion

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00993/21	809.034 Lam E	Online !	Available