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Private Voices The Diaries Of Elizabeth Gaskell And Sophia Holland
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Book Synopsis Private Voices: The Diaries of Elizabeth Gaskell and Sophia Holland by : Chapple J A V Chapple
Download or read book Private Voices: The Diaries of Elizabeth Gaskell and Sophia Holland written by Chapple J A V Chapple and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two diaries, by the nineteenth-century novelist Elizabeth Gaskell and her cousin Sophia Holland, provide us with uniquely personal and revealing accounts of Victorian womanhood and motherhood. This is the first critical edition of the Gaskell diary and the first ever publication of the Holland diary. The Gaskells were among the first generation of parents to experience the benefits and burdens of an abundance of child-care literature. Both Elizaeth and Sophia reveal themselves here as anxious to be seen as conscientious and well-informed mothers, but as confused as contemporary parents by the conflicting advice to be found within the pages of the so-called 'experts'. As a piece of social history, these diaries documen the challenges, dilemmas and rewards of Victorian parenthood. As a pieceof literature, there is no doubt that, in cultivating the powers of observation to be found in her diary, Elizabeth was laying the foundation for the wider social vision to be found in her novels. Both works have been carefully edited and annotated from their original manuscripts by J A V Chapple and are accompanied by an illuminating introduction by Anita Wilson.
Book Synopsis Private Voices. The Diaries of Elizabeth Gaskell and Sophia Holland. Edited by J. A. V. Chapple and Anita Wilson by : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Download or read book Private Voices. The Diaries of Elizabeth Gaskell and Sophia Holland. Edited by J. A. V. Chapple and Anita Wilson written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mind of the Child by : Sally Shuttleworth
Download or read book The Mind of the Child written by Sally Shuttleworth and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s novelists such as Brontë and Dickens began to explore the inner world of the child. Simultaneously the first psychiatric studies of childhood were appearing. Moving between literature and science, Sally Shuttleworth explores issues such as childhood fears, imaginary lands, sexuality, and the relation of the child to animal life.
Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by Sandro Jung and published by Academia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembles fourteen original essays on Gaskell, the Victorian novelist of social problem fiction
Book Synopsis An Elizabeth Gaskell Chronology by : G. Handley
Download or read book An Elizabeth Gaskell Chronology written by G. Handley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-12-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronology will set Elizabeth Gaskell in her historical, social and literary contexts. It will focus on her career as a writer but will also underline her interactive roles as wife, mother, practical and tolerant Christian, radical sympathizer. Graham Handley discusses her early life, her marriage, the beginnings of her writing, the years of achievement, her social, humanitarian concerns, love of travel and its influence, with the balance of domesticity and creativity which is the key to her character.
Book Synopsis Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by : Catherine Delafield
Download or read book Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel written by Catherine Delafield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using private diary writing as her model, Catherine Delafield investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women's writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-fictional diaries and the practice of diary-writing, she assesses the interaction between the fictional diary and other forms of literary production such as epistolary narrative, the periodical, the factual document and sensation fiction. The discrepancies between the private diary and its use as a narrative device are explored through the writings of Frances Burney, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Brontë, Dinah Craik, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker. The ideological function of the diary, Delafield suggests, produces a conflict in fictional narrative between that diary's received use as a domestic and spiritual record and its authority as a life-writing opportunity for women. Delafield considers women as writers, readers, and subjects and contextualizes her analysis within nineteenth-century reading practice. She demonstrates ways in which women could becomes performers of their own story through a narrative method which was authorized by their femininity and at the same time allowed them to challenge the myth of domestic womanhood.
Book Synopsis Resisting the Marriage Plot by : Dalene Joy Fisher
Download or read book Resisting the Marriage Plot written by Dalene Joy Fisher and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I cannot suppose any situation more distressing than for a woman of sensibility with an improving mind to be bound to such a man as I have described." Mary Wollstonecraft's response to one of her early critics points to the fact that fiction has long been employed by authors to cast a vision for social change. Less acknowledged, however, has been the role of the Christian faith in such works. In this Studies in Theology and the Arts volume, literary scholar Dalene Joy Fisher explores the work of four beloved female novelists: Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Each of these authors, she argues, appealed to the Christian faith through their heroines to challenge cultural expectations regarding women, especially in terms of marriage. Although Christianity has all too often been used to oppress women, Fisher demonstrates that in the hands of these novelists and through the actions of their characters, it could also be a transformative force to liberate women. The Studies in Theology and the Arts series encourages Christians to thoughtfully engage with the relationship between their faith and artistic expression, with contributions from both theologians and artists on a range of artistic media including visual art, music, poetry, literature, film, and more.
Book Synopsis Further Letters of Mrs. Gaskell by : John Chapple
Download or read book Further Letters of Mrs. Gaskell written by John Chapple and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reputation of Elizabeth Gaskell is undergoing a renaissance as we enter the new millennium. The variety of her work and the range of her acquaintance makes her one of the most interesting literary figures of her century. This new collection of her letters illustrates the richness and diversity of her involvement in a remarkable range of social and literary activities. Out of the 270 letters included in this volume only 40 have been previously published.
Book Synopsis Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives by : Justine Dymond
Download or read book Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives written by Justine Dymond and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors in this collection examine and critique motherhood memoir, alongside the texts of their own lives, while seeking to transform mothering practice— highlighting revolutionary praxis within books, or, when none is available, creating new visions for social change. Many essays interrogate the tensions of maternal narrative—the negotiation of the historical location of writer and readers, narrative and linguistic constraints, and the slippery ground of memory—as well as the borders constructed between the “objective” scholar and the reader who engages with and identifies with texts through her intellect and her emotional being.
Book Synopsis Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain by : Nancy Henry
Download or read book Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain written by Nancy Henry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment defines the cultures that emerged in response to the democratization of the stock market in nineteenth-century Britain when investing provided access to financial independence for women. Victorian novels represent those economic networks in realistic detail and are preoccupied with the intertwined economic and affective lives of characters. Analyzing evidence about the lives of real investors together with fictional examples, including case studies of four authors who were also investors, Nancy Henry argues that investing was not just something women did in Victorian Britain; it was a distinctly modern way of thinking about independence, risk, global communities and the future in general.
Book Synopsis The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I by : Joanne Shattock
Download or read book The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I written by Joanne Shattock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.
Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by S. Foster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-10-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary biographical study examines the life and works of the mid-Victorian woman novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell, whose popularity is now well established. It places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work. It pays particular attention to the ways in which she sought to reconcile the conflicting demands made upon her, as woman and as artist.
Book Synopsis Elizabeth Gaskell by : Nancy S. Weyant
Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by Nancy S. Weyant and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great deal has been written about Elizabeth Gaskell in the past decade, and Elizabeth Gaskell: An Annotated Guide to English Language Sources, 1992-2001 builds upon Weyant's 1994 work which covered some 350 sources published between 1976 and 1991. This supplement identifies almost 600 new books, book chapters, journal articles, dissertations, and master and honor theses on the life and writings of Gaskell. Contents include two appendixes of new editions of Gaskell's works in print and digital, audio, and video formats; a selection of websites; citations of many brief articles in the Gaskell Newsletter that are generally ignored in standard indexes; numerous sources that would otherwise be difficult to locate; and an author and subject index."--Quatrième de couverture
Book Synopsis New Directions in Spiritual Kinship by : Todne Thomas
Download or read book New Directions in Spiritual Kinship written by Todne Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the significance of spiritual kinship—or kinship reckoned in relation to the divine—in creating myriad forms of affiliations among Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Rather than confining the study of spiritual kinship to Christian godparenthood or presuming its disappearance in light of secularism, the authors investigate how religious practitioners create and contest sacred solidarities through ritual, discursive, and ethical practices across social domains, networks, and transnational collectives. This book’s theoretical conversations and rich case studies hold value for scholars of anthropology, kinship, and religion.
Book Synopsis Elizabeth Gaskell by : Patsy Stoneman
Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by Patsy Stoneman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a combination of psychoanalytic and political analyses of Elizabeth Gaskell's work, this title also presents direct and accomplished chapters on each of the major novels, as well as the major themes in Gaskell's work.
Book Synopsis The Meanings of Home in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction by : Lambert, Carolyn
Download or read book The Meanings of Home in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction written by Lambert, Carolyn and published by Victorian Secrets Limited. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully written study, Carolyn Lambert explores the ways in which Elizabeth Gaskell challenges the nineteenth-century cultural construct of the home as a domestic sanctuary offering protection from the external world. Gaskell’s fictional homes often fail to provide a place of safety: doors and windows are ambiguous openings through which death can enter, and are potent signifiers of entrapment as well as protective barriers. The underlying fragility of Gaskell’s concept of home is illustrated by her narratives of homelessness, a state she uses to represent psychological, social, and emotional separation. By drawing on novels, letters and non-fiction writings, Lambert shows how Gaskell’s detailed descriptions of domestic interiors allow for nuanced and unconventional interpretations of character and behaviour, and evince a complex understanding of the significance of home for the construction of identity, gender and sexuality. Lambert’s Gaskell is an outsider whose own dilemmas and conflicts are reflected in the intricate and multi-faceted portrayals of home in her fiction.
Download or read book Serial Forms written by Clare Pettitt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 proposes an entirely new way of reading the transition into the modern. It is the first book in a series of three which will take the reader up to the end of the First World War, moving from a focus on London to a global perspective. Serial Forms sets out the theoretical and historical basis for all three volumes. It suggests that, as a serial news culture and a stadial historicism developed together between 1815 and 1848, seriality became the dominant form of the nineteenth century. Through serial newsprint, illustrations, performances, and shows, the past and the contemporary moment enter into public visibility together. Serial Forms argues that it is through seriality that the social is represented as increasingly politically urgent. The insistent rhythm of the serial reorganizes time, recalibrates and rescales the social, and will prepare the way for the 1848 revolutions which are the subject of the next book. By placing their work back into the messy print and performance culture from which it originally appeared, Serial Forms is able to produce new and exciting readings of familiar authors such as Scott, Byron, Dickens, and Gaskell. Rather than offering a rarefied intellectual history or chopping up the period into 'Romantic' and 'Victorian', Clare Pettitt tracks the development of communications technologies and their impact on the ways in which time, history and virtuality are imagined.
