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Tracing the publishing history of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford from
its initial 1851-53 serialization in Dickens's Household Words
through its numerous editions and adaptations, Thomas Recchio
focuses especially on how the text has been deployed to support
ideas related to nation and national identity. Recchio maps
Cranford's nineteenth-century reception in Britain and the United
States through illustrated editions in England dating from 1864 and
their subsequent re-publication in the United States, US school
editions in the first two decades of the twentieth century,
dramatic adaptations from 1899 to 2007, and Anglo-American literary
criticism in the latter half of the twentieth century. Making
extensive use of primary materials, Recchio considers Cranford
within the context of the Victorian periodical press, contemporary
reviews, theories of text and word relationships in illustrated
books, community theater, and digital media. In addition to being a
detailed publishing history that emphasizes the material forms of
the book and its adaptations, Recchio's book is a narrative of
Cranford's evolution from an auto-ethnography of a receding
mid-Victorian English way of life to a novel that was deployed as a
maternal model to define an American sensibility for early
twentieth-century Mediterranean and Eastern European immigrants.
While focusing on one novel, Recchio offers a convincing
micro-history of the way English literature was positioned in
England and the United States to support an Anglo-centric cultural
project, to resist the emergence of multicultural societies, and to
ensure an unchanging notion of a stable English culture on both
sides of the Atlantic.
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