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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865."”.
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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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"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
… 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 …