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Elizabeth Gaskell

  • Textbook
  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Jane Spencer
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Part of the book series: Women Writers (WW)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Warring Members: Elizabeth Gaskell, Writer

    • Jane Spencer
    Pages 1-31

  3. Giving Utterance: Mary Barton

    • Jane Spencer
    Pages 32-50

  4. Improper Women: Ruth and The Life of Charlotte Brontë

    • Jane Spencer
    Pages 51-74

  5. Changes: Cranford and North and South

    • Jane Spencer
    Pages 75-95

  6. History and Tyranny: Sylvia’s Lovers

    • Jane Spencer
    Pages 96-115

  7. Household Goodness: ‘Cousin Phillis’, Wives and Daughters

    • Jane Spencer
    Pages 116-140

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 141-156
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Elizabeth Gaskell has been presented in many different terms: as a timid, conventional Victorian woman and as a feminist critic of her society; as a Chartist sympathizer and as an apologist for class privilege. This new study of Gaskell's major work argues that, as a Unitarian and as a middle-class woman, she held a number of warring allegiances that show themselves in complexities and contradictions in her writing; but that, towards the end of her career, she found ways of resolving for herself the tensions between social duty and artistic delight.

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