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The Romance of Social Problems in Austen and Gaskell
… and Prejudice</italic> and Elizabeth Gaskell's <italic>North and South</italic>. After a discussion of classical romance conventions in the first chapter, I will employ a close reading of <italic>Pride and Prejudice</italic> to show how it both fulfills and subverts romantic …
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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
… 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 articulate …
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Articulating class : language and conflict in English literature from Gaskell to Tressell
Concentrating on English literary texts written between the 1830s and 1914 and which have the working class as their central focus, the thesis examines various ways in which class conflict inheres within the textual language, particularly as far as the representation of working-class speech is …
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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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"Forms and ceremonies to be gone through" : performance and self-knowledge in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford", "North and South", and "Wives and Daughters".
… 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 ultimately …
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"Taking her part in a duet" : the painful creation of the self in Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot.
… heroines wrestling with this dilemma. Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot approach their heroines' creation of the Self from vastly different perspectives. Focusing on Emma, Mary Barton, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, this dissertation explores the way the heroines expend their creative energies to …
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The portrayal of dissent and the Anglican Church in Victorian literature
… 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 Gaskell …
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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
… 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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The nineteenth-century English dialect novel
… 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 reader …
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Angelic Wasting: The Impacts of the Enlightenment, Evangelicalism, and the Industrial Revolution on Romanticization of Tuberculosis in England, 1800-1850
… ways. In the novels of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë, tuberculosis was used as a vehicle to criticize the working conditions that arose under the Industrial Revolution and the hypocrisy of clergy members, respectively. The poets Keats and Shelley studied the Enlightenment, …
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
… 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
… (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 conflicts. This …
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The pen and the sword: the development of military periodicals and military professionalisation, 1790-1914
This thesis will answer a number of questions regarding the development of military periodicals from 1790 to 1914. It will explore why they emerged when they did, the different forms that they took, and how they fitted into the wider publishing environment. Alongside that, it will investigate those …
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Look and Leep: How are we doing? An audit of GSH colposcopy clinic from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2021
Background: Cervical cancer persists as the second most common cancer in women in developing countries. The prevalence of cervical cancer has markedly decreased in well developed nations, primarily attributed to the implementation of efficacious screening services. Such screening services pose …
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Outside the Coffee Belt: A Study on the Suitability and Sustainability of Coffee Plants in California Due to Climate Change Using GIS
… the United States are grown in California. Mark Gaskell, Ph.D., a California Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor, recently began an experiment to grow coffee plants; he believed that due to changing climatic conditions, California farmers could start to grow coffee plants in their fields. Several …
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Half-finished streets, Illimitable Horizons and Enclosed Intimacy: the landscapes of Elizabeth Gaskells writing.
The study of Gaskell's use of place lies at the heart of the argument in this thesis. Recollections of her early years and places visited during her writing career help to create vividly evoked, topographically secure locations, which provide the structural foundations for her narratives. The major …
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