Scheherezade in the Marketplace Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Novel

Name: Scheherezade in the Marketplace Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Novel
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ISBN: 9780195073881

ISBN-10: 0195073886

ISBN-13: 9780195073881

Edition: 1992

Authors: Hilary M. Schor

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In this book Schor places the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell in the context both of Victorian society and Victorian fiction. She argues that Gaskell--long viewed as a private, gentle woman who wrote only from a sense of outrage at Industrial England--was in fact intensely interested in publication and in assuming a public voice. Schor also examines how Gaskell's efforts to write about those denied a voice within Victorian society led her to an awareness of her own silencing, and also the limitations of the culture's prevalent literary forms. Schor focuses first on Gaskell's early writing efforts and the difficulty encountered by a woman novelist trying to find a voice; then, on Gaskell's…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/7/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.56" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



The Novelist as Literary Daughter



"I Have Tried to Write Truthfully": Authority and Authorship in Mary Barton



The Plot of the Beautiful Ignoramus: Ruth and the Tradition of the Fallen Woman



My Scheherezade: The Woman Novelist's Household Words



Affairs of the Alphabet: The Novel, the Train, and the Woman Writer in Cranford



"One Continued Series of Oppositions" North and South, Marriage, and the Romance of a Common Language



So Many Views: Closing and Opening Victorian Fiction



"Filled in with Pretty Writing": Desire, History, and Literacy in Sylvia's Lovers



Telling Tales: Every-day Life, Secrets, and the Woman's Story in Wives and Daughters


Notes


Index