Dissembling fictions : Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian social text

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    • D'Albertis, Deirdre

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Dissembling fictions : Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian social text

Deirdre D'Albertis

Macmillan, c1997

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-227) and index

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内容説明

Hardly the quiet conservator of the Victorian status quo she is often thought to be, Elizabeth Gaskell gravitated toward some of the most daunting subjects - prostitution, industrial conflict, evolutionary theory - that a nineteenth century woman writer could represent in her fiction. In Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text, Deirdre d' Albertis uncovers the tactics of disguise which Gaskell skilfully employed in order to evade the prescribed notions of what a woman writer should be. D'Albertis unveils the complex patterns existent in Gaskell's works, and examines her use of dissembling as a narrative practice. An illuminative study which also proposes that feminist readers take a fresh look at the very idea of a separate tradition for women writers in light of Gaskell's example, Dissembling Fictions is a thorough and appealing analysis of an underappreciated female writer whose influence is still felt today.

目次

Acknowledgements - Introduction: True Lies: Gaskell's Dissembling Fictions - Bookmaking Out of the Remains of the Dead: The Life of Charlotte Bronte - 'Wild Night Wandering': Getting Out of the House in Gaskell's Industrial Fiction - Penitential Narrative: Fallen Women and Redemptive Profession in Ruth - Insurgent Individualism: Historical Romance and the Novel of Petition in Sylvia's Lovers - Natural History in Wives and Daughters - Conclusion: Gaskell and New Feminist Historiography - Notes - Index

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