Elizabeth Gaskell : Mary Barton, North and South

Author(s)

• Chapman, Alison

Bibliographic Information

Elizabeth Gaskell : Mary Barton, North and South

edited by Alison Chapman

（A reader's guide to essential criticism）

Palgrave Macmillan, c1999

• : pbk

Note

"First published 1999 by Icon Books"--t.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this Readers' Guide, Alison Chapman introduces and discusses the patterns of critical attention that Gaskell's work has attracted across the past hundred and fifty years. Beginning with contemporary press and critical reviews, and treatments by the Victorian and early twentieth-century literary establishment, the Guide sets out a background for the most recent and challenging reassessments of these novels, bringing the reader fully up to date on current critical approaches.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Reading (as) Conflict: Approaching Gaskell's Fiction.- Telling Tales: Contemporary Reviews.- A Proper Authoress: Biographical Criticism.- 'The Unhappy State of Things': Marxist Literary Criticism and the 'Social-Problem' Novel.- Feminist Neglect and Feminist Celebration: The 1980s.- Recovering Contexts: New Historicism in the 1990s.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Acknowledgements.- Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB00820854
• ISBN:
  • 9781840460377
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke
• Pages/Volumes: 192 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 823.8
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865, Mary Barton
  • BLSH : Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865, North and south
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA69869208