Elizabeth Gaskell and the Art of the Short Story.
Title:
Elizabeth Gaskell and the Art of the Short Story.
Author:
Marroni, Francesco.
ISBN:
9783035102451
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Series:
Victorian and Edwardian Studies ; v.1
Victorian and Edwardian Studies
Contents:
Contents - 5 -- INTRODUCTION - Elizabeth Gaskell's narrating voices: Signs and metaphors for a changing world - 7 -- Part 1: Unweaving the text:a new language for a new society -- ALAN SHELSTON - Exploring the boundaries in Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction - 15 -- IAN CAMPBELL - Chains of our own forging: Gaskell and a search for freedom. - 23 -- MASSIMO VERZELLA - Tracing the linguistic fingerprints of the Unitarian ethos: A corpus-based study of Elizabeth Gaskell's short stories - 35 -- Part 2: In the darkest labyrinths of Gaskell's imagination -- MARIACONCETTA COSTANTINI - Elizabeth Gaskell and the crime short story - 51 -- RENZO D'AGNILLO - Elizabeth Gaskell's "Disappearances": Narratives of absence between mystery and empirical detection - 71 -- ANNA ENRICHETTA SOCCIO - In and out of the Victorian house: The representation of domestic spaces in Gaskell's "The Grey Woman" - 81 -- BENEDETTA BINI - "The cat on her knee": Gaskell's leave-taking - 97 -- MARILENA SARACINO - Interpreting otherness: Elizabeth Gaskell and "The Crooked Branch" - 105 -- Part 3: Beyond and beneath Cranford and its "strict codes" -- FRANCESCO MARRONI - Narrating nineteenth-century dress codes: Elizabeth Gaskell and the desire for a turban - 123 -- VALENTINA POLCINI - Illustrating Cranford: George du Maurier and Hugh Thomson - 145 -- RAFFAELLA ANTINUCCI - Filming Gaskell's shorter fiction - 155 -- Part 4: Narrative possibilities and intertextual territories -- ALLAN C. CHRISTENSEN - "Ruth…sick for home": The Keatsian imagination in the novel of Elizabeth Gaskell - 171 -- MICHELA MARRONI - A quasi-Ruskinian tale: Elizabeth Gaskell's concern for objectivity. - 189 -- ELEONORA SASSO - Morrisian hauntings in Gaskell's supernatural tales - 197 -- Index - 213 -- Notes on contributors - 221.
Abstract:
This volume presents a collection of original and interconnected essays which aim to chart Elizabeth Gaskell's literary imagination by focusing on diverse aspects of her short stories. It includes the papers read at the conference on Elizabeth Gaskell and the art of the short story, organized by the Centre for Victorian and Edwardian Studies (CUSVE, G. d'Annunzio University, Pescara, 2010), to celebrate the bicentenary of her birth. While offering fresh insights into Gaskell's shorter fiction, this collection provides an introduction to the many issues that absorbed her literary attention. Most importantly, by considering the growing significance of some neglected aspects of her works and the cultural and ideological context in which she lived, the contributions collectively delineate Gaskell's artistic tensions, ethical sensibility and social commitment in a rapidly changing world. In their overall critical design, the contributors intend to shed light on the complex web of dialogic suggestions underlying her fiction, while at the same time revealing the extraordinary and multifaceted inventiveness of one of the most important Victorian writers.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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