Faithful Realism

Faithful Realism
Author: Josie Billington
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838754580

"Josie Billington seeks to resituate Gaskell's work within the wider tradition of nineteenth-century realism and argues that Gaskell deserves to be read not as a poor second to George Eliot but as offering an English Victorian equivalent of the religious realism of Leo Tolstoy.