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First published in 1977, this book explores biography in the
post-Renaissance period and investigates some of the problems
implicit in this literary form. The introduction considers various
aspects of biographical theory as expressed by practitioners and
critics. The rest of the book is a detailed examination of specific
works placed in chronological context - reflecting the author's
assertion that a work of biography is inseparable from the
intellectual and cultural precepts of its age. Amongst the works
examined are: Plutarch's Lives, Aubrey's Brief Lives, Boswell's
Life of Johnson, and Johnson's Life of Savage. This book will be of
interest to students of literature and cultural history.
First published in 1977, this book explores biography in the
post-Renaissance period and investigates some of the problems
implicit in this literary form. The introduction considers various
aspects of biographical theory as expressed by practitioners and
critics. The rest of the book is a detailed examination of specific
works placed in chronological context - reflecting the author's
assertion that a work of biography is inseparable from the
intellectual and cultural precepts of its age. Amongst the works
examined are: Plutarch's Lives, Aubrey's Brief Lives, Boswell's
Life of Johnson, and Johnson's Life of Savage. This book will be of
interest to students of literature and cultural history.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated
and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts"
includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North
and South, along with the full text of Gaskell s 1850 short story
"Lizzie Leigh," which, like North and South, is set in industrial
Manchester and deals with strong working women. This topic is
further addressed in Bessie Rayner Parkes s essay on Victorian
working women. "Criticism" collects eleven assessments of the
novel, among them Louis Cazamian s 1904 study of industrial fiction
and Hilary Schor s recent study of North and South in the context
of discourse analysis. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are
also included."
Ranking alongside Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot as one of the
great Victorian authoresses, Elizabeth Gaskell is now chiefly
remembered for penning the radical novel North and South, and
Cranford, recently adapted by the BBC. She was also a regular
contributor to Dickens' periodicals. Highly influential among her
peers, Gaskell forged friendships with contemporary authors, most
famously perhaps with Charlotte Bronte, whose biography she wrote,
producing a work that is still regarded as one of the finest
examples of life-writing. Famed for her adeptness at capturing
local dialect and the voices of middle-class characters, Gaskell
skilfully imbued all her writing with a sense of the intimate and
everyday. Due to her prolific letter-writing, records remain of her
own daily experiences and thoughts. In this new biography, Alan
Shelston, founder of The Gaskell Society Journal, sheds light on
the life of the woman behind the writing: her literary successes,
and also her marriage and humanitarian work.
Contains number of previously unpublished letters which were not
included in the hardback edition. Completes the project of
publishing the correspondence of one of the greatest
nineteeth-century novelists - J. A. V. Chapple edited not only the
letters of Elizabeth Gaskell (1966), but also published Elizabeth
Gaskell: The early years in 1997. The influence and appreciation of
Mrs Gaskell is undergoing a renaissance, with the recent BBC
adaptation of Wives and Daughters and the forthcoming North and
South. The authors are two of the acknowledged world experts on
Elizabeth Gaskell - both of whom have helped the BBC in compiling
the 1999 Omnibus programme.. This collection illustrates once more
the richness and diversity of her involvement in a remarkable range
of social and literary activities, making her letters an important
source for scholars of Victorian literature and culture 6. Includes
correspondence. -- .
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