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The storyteller's voice: The dialogic art of Elizabeth Gaskell.
Elizabeth Gaskell was a gifted storyteller. Her letters and her fiction attest to an imagination rooted in oral narrative, marked by the digressiveness and dispersiveness of living speech. She wrote her first novel, she said, as if she were "speaking to a friend over the fire on a winter's night," …
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Domestic narratives in the transatlantic community: Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott
… the United States. Concentrating primarily upon Elizabeth Gaskell‘s and Louisa May Alcott‘s fictions, I trace how they operate as 'transatlantic domestic narratives‘. I use this term to refer to the mobility of their material texts as they circulate within a transatlantic community, and also to …
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“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class
<p>In this thesis, I examine Elizabeth Gaskell’s development as a middle-class author, which is a position that most scholars take for granted. Moving away from traditional Marxist readings and drawing on revisionist class studies, I reconsider Gaskell as the typical bourgeois woman of her era by …
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“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class
<p>In this thesis, I examine Elizabeth Gaskell’s development as a middle-class author, which is a position that most scholars take for granted. Moving away from traditional Marxist readings and drawing on revisionist class studies, I reconsider Gaskell as the typical bourgeois woman of her era by …
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Between Two Worlds: A Study of the Heroine in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell
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Rhetoric of argument in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Mary Barton" and "Ruth"
Gaskell's two social novels, Mary Barton and Ruth, were significant contributors to the nineteenth-century argumentative discourse, and as such, the novels' rhetorical attributes, which include logos, pathos, and ethos, define them as arguments for political and social reform. Since scholarship has …
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An examination of selected binary oppositions in the work of Elizabeth Gaskell which serve to demonstrate the author's response to unitarianism and other prevalent influences within mid-Victorian society
This dissertation examines in detail the work of Elizabeth Gaskell, a mid-Victorian English author. It establishes that she was significantly influenced in her writing by the Unitarian social milieu to which she belonged during her lifetime, and by a wide range of other dominant influences, such as …
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"Forms and ceremonies to be gone through" : performance and self-knowledge in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford", "North and South", and "Wives and Daughters".
… looks at blatant and subversive performances in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters. Referencing studies of nineteenth-century performance theory, I will argue that Gaskell, aware of her contemporaries' obsession with theatricality, created works that are …
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The portrayal of dissent and the Anglican Church in Victorian literature
… reflected in the work of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charlotte Brontë. In this paper, I will examine one novel from each writer to explore how each responded to the decline of the Church of England and the growth of other denominations. This thesis project rests on the idea that …
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
… feminist and queer theory to read George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Anne Brontë, I contend that this ideology challenges conventional Victorian conceptions of femininity and prevailing scholarly assessments of the figure of the fallen woman in the work of these major authors. Through their …
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Urban Industry and Literary Work: The Construction of Authorship in the Victorian Social -Problem Novel, 1845--1866
… Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855) by Elizabeth Gaskell, Alton Locke (1850) by Charles Kingsley, Hard Times (1854) by Charles Dickens, and Felix Holt (1866) George Eliot. Individual chapters analyze writers' attempts to project narrative into the heart of urban scenes and labor …
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Between Wildness and Art: Ecology and Agency in Victorian Literature
… as represented in the novels of George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell and, above all, by the iconic figure of Gilbert White of Selborne, presents a sympathetic attentiveness to non-human nature, but without significant activity on its behalf. This dissertation goes on to argue that the idea of human …
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Feminizing Grief: Victorian Women and the Appropriation of Mourning
… Thomas Hardy, Anne Brontë, Frances Trollope and Elizabeth Gaskell to argue that in Victorian Britain and America, the repressive and gendered mourning culture could be appropriated by women to highlight its most egregious limitations as well as its opportunities. This interdisciplinary …
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Contextualizing Value: Market Stories in Mid-Victorian Periodicals
… namely Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant, were writing and printing them. Navigating discourses about literature and writing to delineate and ascertain the implications of the contextual position of certain short stories, this study characterizes a …
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Women writing men : female Victorian authors and their representations of masculinity
… covers five female Victorian authors (Elizabeth Gaskell, M.E. Braddon, Dinah Craik, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Edith Nesbit) and the representations of masculinity in their novels. By taking a masculinity studies approach, this dissertation finds that these novels, in an attempt to gain …
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Social Memory and Nineteenth-Century British Historical Fiction
… Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, and Philip Meadows Taylor.
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Narrating anger and sympathy in the condition of england: the role of emotion in mid-nineteenth-century politics and fiction
… Condition-of-England novels, such as Elizabeth Gaskell' s Mmy Barton (1848) and Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke (1850), demonstrate the Carlylean premise that moral and social improvements within the body politic require a mediated reaction to the escalating discontent that …
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The nineteenth-century English dialect novel
… print conventions. My second chapter focuses on Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) and her late novel, Sylvia’s Lovers (1863), where the novelist attempts a Yorkshire orthography for the first time in print. This chapter maps the bruising revision process that Gaskell was compelled to undertake by …
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Monomania: The Life and Death of a Psychiatric Idea in Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1836-1860
… They include works by the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot, neglected thriller pieces by Dinah Craik, the pseudonymous ‘Thomas Waters’, and an anonymously authored story from The Ladies’ Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance. These works all pre-date monomania’s more …
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"A brilliant burst of botanical imagination": Proserpina and the nineteenth-century evolution of myth
… of change in the fiction of George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell and the prose of John Ruskin. Language, form and structure, morality and science, are concerns which literature, botany and myth all share in the nineteenth century, as the Victorians attempt to articulate their relationship to a …
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