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Elizabeth Gaskell, ¿A Victorian stereotype?
No full textThe aim of this paper is to highlight the most interesting aspects, as well as the conclusions achieved by its author when writing her doctoral thesis. Thus, firstly, the figure of Elizabeth Gaskell will be analysed trying to see to what extent she herself adapted and adjusted to the standards established in the society of her time, considering the Victorian concept of how women should be and behave, their obligations and responsibilities. Subsequently, her novels will be revised attending to how Gaskell reflected Victorian society in them, as well as the criticism that arose around these works during the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries.Con este trabajo, se pretenden compilar y resaltar aquellas cuestiones y conclusiones, que se consideran más interesantes, a las que la autora del mismo llegó al elaborar su tesis doctoral. Así, se va a presentar brevemente, en primer lugar, la figura de Elizabeth Gaskell en relación con la figura de mujer establecida en la época victoriana, tratando de ver hasta qué punto se adaptó y adecuó a los estándares establecidos en la sociedad de su momento, atendiendo para ello a la idea de mujer, sus obligaciones y responsabi-lidades, imperante en la Inglaterra del siglo xix. Posteriormente, se hará un repaso de sus novelas atendiendo al reflejo que Gaskell hizo en las mismas de la sociedad inglesa del momento, así como a la crítica surgida en torno a estas obras durante los siglos xix, xx y principios del xxi
Remediating Gaskell: "North and South" and its BBC Adaptation, 2004
No full textThis book offers a range of perspectives on Elizabeth Gaskell and adaptation. The contributors – Alan Shelston, Raffaella Antinucci, Thomas Recchio, Brenda McKay, Katherine Byrne, Patricia Marchesi, Marcia Marchesi and Loredana Salis – discuss the afterlives of Gaskell’s fiction, from the author as adaptor of her own work to the role of the BBC in re-inventing Gaskell’s narratives. The volume brings together a collection that tackles the remediation of Gaskell’s fiction from Gaskell’s own time to the 21st century, enabling her to join those authors, most prominently, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, who have received full-length book studies on adaptations of their work. The collection, as a whole, seems to confirm the notion that since the inception of film, the number of adaptations of an author’s work equates to the writer’s canonical status. No doubt, this book will prompt many more investigations into the adaptability of Elizabeth Gaskell’s fiction
Honesty admits discourse : lying in the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell
No full textVariously deemed a motif, an image or a puzzling preoccupation, lying links all of Elizabeth Gaskell's works, and its political implications are far more important than critics have recognized. Lying, this dissertation argues, is the key that opens up Gaskell's values, purposes, and methods, including her own linguistic shifts and suppressions. Moreover, twentieth-century theorists of discourse and power such as Foucault and Bakhtin have helped locate lying as one of the linguistic tools for expressing and dealing with cultural change. For Gaskell, lying does not represent a turning away from truth but an expansion of the grounds for truth. Examination of the lies in her six major novels and many of her shorter works confirms that Gaskell was interrogating current assumptions of truth by encouraging inspection of motives and reinterpretation of values
Elizabeth Gaskell, ¿un estereotipo victoriano?
No full textThe aim of this paper is to highlight the most interesting aspects, as well as the conclusions achieved by its author when writing her doctoral thesis. Thus, firstly, the figure of Elizabeth Gaskell will be analysed trying to see to what extent she herself adapted and adjusted to the standards established in the society of her time, considering the Victorian concept of how women should be and behave, their obligations and responsibilities. Subsequently, her novels will be revised attending to how Gaskell reflected Victorian society in them, as well as the criticism that arose around these works during the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries.Con este trabajo, se pretenden compilar y resaltar aquellas cuestiones y conclusiones, que se consideran más interesantes, a las que la autora del mismo llegó al elaborar su tesis doctoral. Así, se va a presentar brevemente, en primer lugar, la figura de Elizabeth Gaskell en relación con la figura de mujer establecida en la época victoriana, tratando de ver hasta qué punto se adaptó y adecuó a los estándares establecidos en la sociedad de su momento, atendiendo para ello a la idea de mujer, sus obligaciones y responsabilidades, imperante en la Inglaterra del siglo XIX. Posteriormente, se hará un repaso de sus novelas atendiendo al reflejo que Gaskell hizo en las mismas de la sociedad inglesa del momento, así como a la crítica surgida en torno a estas obras durante los siglos XIX, XX y principios del XXI
Elizabeth Gaskell and the short story
No full textElizabeth Gaskell was the author of over forty short stories. Despite the resurgence in Gaskell criticism over the past three decades, these stories have only recently begun to receive the attention they deserve. Following an account of how the Victorian short story has been re-evaluated by literary critics, this introductory survey illuminates Gaskell’s key contributions to the development of the genre. Our discussion is structured around several areas of critical investigation that have been at the forefront of Gaskell studies over the past few years. These include: the position of Victorian short fiction in relation to predominant accounts of the form’s development; Gaskell’s engagement with the periodical press and the Victorian literary marketplace; her response to the connection between short stories and the Christmas season; and her deployment of supernatural and sensational tropes. The image that emerges is that of a professional woman of letters who used shorter fiction as a space to experiment with new narrative methods, unusual characterisation, and contentious themes. Concluding with some reflections on the two-part review in All the Year Round, newly attributed to Gaskell in July 2015, we suggest how Gaskell’s engagement with the ‘ungodly spinnings’ of French ballad and narrative tradition might have helped shape her own practice as a master of the form.</p
Elizabeth Gaskell and the short story
No full textElizabeth Gaskell was the author of over forty short stories. Despite the resurgence in Gaskell criticism over the past three decades, these stories have only recently begun to receive the attention they deserve. Following an account of how the Victorian short story has been re-evaluated by literary critics, this introductory survey illuminates Gaskell’s key contributions to the development of the genre. Our discussion is structured around several areas of critical investigation that have been at the forefront of Gaskell studies over the past few years. These include: the position of Victorian short fiction in relation to predominant accounts of the form’s development; Gaskell’s engagement with the periodical press and the Victorian literary marketplace; her response to the connection between short stories and the Christmas season; and her deployment of supernatural and sensational tropes. The image that emerges is that of a professional woman of letters who used shorter fiction as a space to experiment with new narrative methods, unusual characterisation, and contentious themes. Concluding with some reflections on the two-part review in All the Year Round, newly attributed to Gaskell in July 2015, we suggest how Gaskell’s engagement with the ‘ungodly spinnings’ of French ballad and narrative tradition might have helped shape her own practice as a master of the form.</p
Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell
No full textThis introduction traces how, since the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell (2007), scholarship on Gaskell has burgeoned to reflect her status as an eminent Victorian woman of letters, and her expanded appeal as an author ripe for adaptation into multiple popular cultural forms. It considers recent work in Gaskell studies, in particular on the shorter fiction, her cultural reception and legacy, and in relation to developments in material culture studies, ecocriticism, studies of Victorian religion, and on the intersections between race, class and gender. It concludes by considering Gaskell’s legacy in creative critical reflections and present-day media, and by offering a summary of the twenty-five chapters included in this volume.</p
Blessings left behind : self and social obligation in the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell
No full textFar from supporting the domestic ideology of the Nineteenth Century as many writers contend, Elizabeth Gaskell\u27s five major novels–Mary Barton, Ruth, North and South, Sylvia\u27s Lovers and Wives and Daughters--reflect her overriding idea that the individual could effect social change only through the achievement of moral integrity. Gaskell believes that the primary responsibility of an adult participant of community life is moral awareness, and in these five novels Gaskell creates a sort of moral mythology, or stories by which women could guide their lives. Gaskell\u27s heroines influence their specific communities by learning the supposed feminine virtues of love, mercy and generosity, the best of the human spirit. At the same time that Gaskell\u27s novels stress these powerful and transformative female values, they also create her new mythology and generate social change, through these particular virtues embodied in and taught by her heroines. There is a progression of moral reasoning in her novels where the heroine\u27s moral integrity involves a coherent conception of who she is and what her commitments are. Gaskell\u27s mythology thus creates a rejuvenated, better community through these virtues, through the achievement of moral integrity and social obligation
Elizabeth Gaskell and the short story: an introduction
No full textElizabeth Gaskell was the author of over forty short stories. Despite the resurgence in Gaskell criticism over the past three decades, these stories have only recently begun to receive the attention they deserve. Following an account of how the Victorian short story has been re-evaluated by literary critics, this introductory survey illuminates Gaskell’s key contributions to the development of the genre. Our discussion is structured around several areas of critical investigation that have been at the forefront of Gaskell studies over the past few years. These include: the position of Victorian short fiction in relation to predominant accounts of the form’s development; Gaskell’s engagement with the periodical press and the Victorian literary marketplace; her response to the connection between short stories and the Christmas season; and her deployment of supernatural and sensational tropes. The image that emerges is that of a professional woman of letters who used shorter fiction as a space to experiment with new narrative methods, unusual characterisation and contentious themes. Concluding with some reflections on the two-part review in All the Year Round, newly attributed to Gaskell in July 2015, we suggest how Gaskell’s engagement with the ‘ungodly spinnings’ of French ballad and narrative tradition might have helped shape her own practice as a master of the form
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