The Cambridge Companion To Elizabeth Gaskell
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| Author | : Jill L. Matus |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2007-02-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139827499 |
In the last few decades Elizabeth Gaskell has become a figure of growing importance in the field of Victorian literary studies. She produced work of great variety and scope in the course of a highly successful writing career that lasted for about twenty years from the mid-1840s to her unexpected death in 1865. The essays in this Companion draw on recent advances in biographical and bibliographical studies of Gaskell and cover the range of her impressive and varied output as a writer of novels, biography, short stories, and letters. The volume, which features well-known scholars in the field of Gaskell studies, focuses throughout on her narrative versatility and her literary responses to the social, cultural, and intellectual transformations of her time. This Companion will be invaluable for students and scholars of Victorian literature, and includes a chronology and guide to further reading.
| Author | : Adrian Poole |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2009-12-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139828118 |
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
| Author | : Adrian Poole |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2009-12-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521871190 |
A survey of the most important British novelists of the past 250 years, for students of British fiction.
| Author | : Heather Glen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2002-12-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521779715 |
The extraordinary works of the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë have entranced and challenged scholars, students, and general readers for the past 150 years. This Companion offers a fascinating introduction to those works, including two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century - Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights. In a series of original essays, contributors explore the roots of the sisters' achievement in early nineteenth-century Haworth, and the childhood 'plays' they developed; they set these writings within the context of a wider history, and show how each sister engages with some of the central issues of her time. The essays also consider the meaning and significance of the Brontës' enduring popular appeal. A detailed chronology and guides to further reading provide further reference material, making this a volume indispensable for scholars and students, and all those interested in the Brontës and their work.
| Author | : John Richetti |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1996-09-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139825046 |
In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.
| Author | : Eva-Marie Kröller |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2017-06-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1107159628 |
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
| Author | : Linda H. Peterson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2015-10-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107064848 |
Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.
| Author | : Ann-Marie Einhaus |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2016-06-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1107084172 |
This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.
| Author | : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 1866 |
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| Author | : Loredana Salis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2014-02-28 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1443853356 |
“This 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. Loredana Salis is to be congratulated for bringing 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.” – Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University, Leicester
