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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Self-knowledge in literature."”.
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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.
Contemporary feminist criticism, which focuses on recovering lost texts by women and rereading women's texts traditionally absorbed in and obscured by the male canon, bears broadening to incorporate insights into the female psyche that come from research in other disciplines. Anthropological …