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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Mary Barton"”.
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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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“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class
… of Gaskell’s works: the social-problem novel Mary Barton (1848), the short Christmas book The Moorland Cottage (1850), and the biography of her fellow novelist The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857). <br /><br /> In the introduction, I contextualize Gaskell as what modern critics deem “middle …
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“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class
… of Gaskell’s works: the social-problem novel Mary Barton (1848), the short Christmas book The Moorland Cottage (1850), and the biography of her fellow novelist The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857). <br /><br /> In the introduction, I contextualize Gaskell as what modern critics deem “middle …
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Urban Industry and Literary Work: The Construction of Authorship in the Victorian Social -Problem Novel, 1845--1866
… focuses on Sybil (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli, 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 …
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Half-finished streets, Illimitable Horizons and Enclosed Intimacy: the landscapes of Elizabeth Gaskells writing.
… environment as portrayed realistically in Mary Barton and as a fictional representation in North and South. The argument focuses on the way in which Gaskell's familiarity with the town, and her compulsion to write about its people, combined to produce a narrative structure founded on a …
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Women writing men : female Victorian authors and their representations of masculinity
… genres, for different purposes. Gaskell’s Mary Barton and North and South seek to ensure middle-class dominance over the working classes. Braddon’s novels Lady Audley’s Secret and Aurora Floyd illustrate the unnaturalness of gender (and thus to call into question notions of “natural” …
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"Vulgarized" : victorian women's fiction in minor theatres
… Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton, and M.E. Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret for what the adaptation can reveal about how these playwrights conceptualized class relations.<p> These adaptations exist within a series of relations--to the original novel, to the history of the …
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"Taking her part in a duet" : the painful creation of the self in Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot.
… vastly different perspectives. Focusing on Emma, Mary Barton, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, this dissertation explores the way the heroines expend their creative energies to achieve an autonomous Self acceptable in a patriarchal society that grants them little but reflected male status. Whether …
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Monomania: The Life and Death of a Psychiatric Idea in Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1836-1860
… of pathogenic environments (notably in Mary Barton (1848)) which gave rise to what the Victorians styled as ‘diseases of the mind’. In Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853) and George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860), the condition was reprised to evoke both period detail and the …
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Catalysis.
<p>The artist discusses the process of discovery that led to her Master of Fine Arts exhibition at Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, from March 19 to 23, 2007. Investigations in printmaking, mixed media, and symbol are highlighted. The work for the thesis show consists of …