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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
Dataset for Antenna-assisted picosecond control of nanoscale phase-transition in vanadium dioxide
No full textOtto L Muskens, Luca Bergamini, Yudong Wang, Jeffrey M Gaskell, Nerea Zabala, CH de Groot, David W Sheel and Javier Aizpurua. Antenna-assisted picosecond control of nanoscale phase-transition in vanadium dioxide. Light: Science & Applications Volume 6, 2016; doi: 10.1038/lsa.2016.173.</span
Secret agonies, hidden wolves, leper-sins: the personal pains and prostitutes of Dickens, Trollope, and Gaskell
No full textThis dissertation explores the ways in which Charles Dickens writes Nancy in Oliver Twist, Anthony Trollope writes Carry Brattle in The Vicar of Bullhampton, and Elizabeth Gaskell writes Esther in Mary Barton to represent and examine some very personal and painful anxiety. About Dickens and Trollope, I contend that they turn their experiences of shame into their prostitute's shame. For Gaskell, I assert that the experience she projects onto her prostitute is that of her own maternal grief in isolation. Further, I argue that these authors self-consciously create biographical parallels between themselves and their prostitutes with an eye to drawing conclusions about the results of their anxieties, both for their prostitutes and, by proxy, for themselves. In Chapter II, I assert that in Nancy, Dickens writes himself and his sense of shame at his degradation and exploitation in Warren's Blacking Factory. This shame resulted in a Dickens divided, split between his successful, public persona and his secret, mortifying shame. Both shame and its divisiveness he represents in a number of ways in Nancy. In Chapter III, I contend that Trollope laces Carry Brattle with some of his own biographical details from his early adult years in London. These parallels signify Carry's personal importance to her author, and reveal her silences and her subordinate role in the text as representative of Trollope's own understanding and fear of shame and its consequences: its silencing and paralyzing nature, and its inescapability. In Chapter IV, I posit that Gaskell identifies herself with Esther, and that through her, Gaskell explores three personal things: her sorrow over the loss of not one but three of her seven children, her possible guilt over these deaths, and her emotional isolation in her marriage as she grieved alone. In her creation of Esther, Gaskell creates a way both to isolate her grief and to forge a close companion to share it, thus enabling her to examine and work through grief. In Chapter V, I examine the preface of each novel and find that these, too, reflect each author's identification with and investment of anxiety in his or her particular prostitute
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
Dataset for: Single-nanoantenna driven nanoscale control of the VO2 insulator to metal transition
No full textDatasets used for the realization of the figures presented in the article: "Single-nanoantenna driven nanoscale control of the VO2 insulator to metal transition" Authors: Luca Bergamini, Bigeng Chen, Daniel Traviss, Yudong Wang, Cornelis H. de Groot, Jeffrey M. Gaskell, David W. Sheel, Nerea Zabala, Javier Aizpurua and Otto L. Muskens. Journal: Nanophotonics DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0250
Containing raw data for figures, optical spectra, heat simulations.</span
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848)
No full textGrünkemeier E. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848). In: Middeke M, Pietrzak-Franger M, eds. Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900. Handbooks of English and American Studies. Berlin: De Gruyter; 2020: 273-288
From nature to virtue : moral formation and community in novels by Charlotte Yonge and Elizabeth Gaskell.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 94-97).This thesis explores how novels by Charlotte Yonge and Elizabeth Gaskell contest popular Victorian assumptions that moral influence stems from maternal nature. By offering virtue as the true source of moral influence, these authors also challenge Victorian ideas about who should be involved in the moral formation of the young. In this thesis, I first examine how these authors' portrayals of bad mothers demonstrate their belief that maternal instinct is distinct from a woman's ability to be a positive moral influence on her children. Next, I consider how Yonge's and Gaskell's frequent use of virtuous female mentors demonstrates their belief that moral formation is both a communal activity and social duty. Finally, I explore how understanding the virtue that enables moral influence as domestic rather than feminine leads Yonge and Gaskell to portray fathers and male mentors who play a significant role in the moral formation of young people.by Alisha M. Barker.M.A
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