Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work

By:

Linda K Hughes

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Hardback

Series:

Victorian Literature and Culture Series

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For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention - the loyal wife, good mother, and respected writer - a reputation that led to her steady decline in the view of 20th-century literary critics. Scholars, however, have begun to recognize that Mrs Gaskell's high standing in Victorian society allowed her to effect change in conventional ideology. The authors focus this re-evaluation on issues pertaining to the Victorian literary marketplace. This text portrays an elusive and self-aware writer whose refusal to grant authority to a single perspective, even while she recirculated the fundamental assumptions and debates of her era, enabled her simultaneously to fulfill and deflect the expectations of the literary marketplace. While she wrote for money, producing periodical fiction, major novels, and nonfiction, Mrs Gaskell was able to maintain a tone of warmth and empathy that allowed her to imagine multiple social and epistemological alternatives. Writing from within the established rubrics of gender, narrative, and publication format, she nevertheless performed important cultural work.

Author Biography:

Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University. Michael Lund is Professor of English at Longwood College. Together they are authors of The Victorian Serial (Virginia, 1991).

Release date Australia

October 31st, 1999

Author

Linda K Hughes

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

220

Series

Victorian Literature and Culture Series

Dimensions

152x229x24

ISBN-13

9780813918754

Product ID

7568917

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