Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Author:
| Spencer, Jane Spencer, Spencer |
Editor:
| Figes, Eva King, Adele |
Series title: | Women Writers Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-312-06058-9 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1993 |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $120.00 |
Book Description:
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Elizabeth Gaskell has been presented in many different terms: as a timid, conventional Victorian woman and as a feminist critic of her society; as a Chartist sympathizer and as an apologist for class privilege. This new study of Gaskell's major work argues that, as a Unitarian and as a middle-class woman, she held a number of warring allegiances that show themselves in complexities and contradictions in her writing; but that, towards the end of her career, she found ways of resolving...
More DescriptionElizabeth Gaskell has been presented in many different terms: as a timid, conventional Victorian woman and as a feminist critic of her society; as a Chartist sympathizer and as an apologist for class privilege. This new study of Gaskell's major work argues that, as a Unitarian and as a middle-class woman, she held a number of warring allegiances that show themselves in complexities and contradictions in her writing; but that, towards the end of her career, she found ways of resolving for herself the tensions between social duty and artistic delight.