...Elaine Freedgood Does the novelist, like the philosopher, need her “poor”? In this essay, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton is the test case for the idea that narrators (and, by extension, novelists) need their characters to be poor—intellectually, physically, spiritually—that narrators might remain...

...Christopher McGowan Abstract This article considers Joseph Conrad's Nostromo and D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love as modernist reworkings of the industrial novels of the mid‐nineteenth century, such as Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Charles Dickens's Hard Times. Conrad and Lawrence, the article...

...: Doubleday, 1953 . Flaubert , Gustave . Correspondance . 5 vols. Paris: Gallimard, 1980-2007 . Gaskell , Elizabeth . Mary Barton . 1848. London: Penguin, 1996 . Gissing , George . Charles Dickens: A Critical Study . London: Blackie and Son, 1898 . ———. Collected...

... (1854) and Mary Barton (1848) alongside pastoral or domestic novels such as The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Daniel Deronda (1876), Ketabgian exposes their shared dependence on the language of the factory and shows just how extensively the language of machines perme- ated Victorian letters...

... in his death” ( Benjamin 100, 101 ). 1 What might this mean for Foe' s ending—an ending in which every individual dies or survives only as a decaying corpus—where the body of the text itself (the body of the protagonist, Susan Barton, and the body of her narrative) becomes insubstantial...

... Barton Fink maps Hollywood’s field of cultural production in the classical Hollywood era. The Coens use stand-ins for both an apolitical high modernist (William Faulkner) and a “committed” populist (Clifford Odets) to thematize the relation between the types of writers in the film business...

... thought allows the space of freedom to become visible. Domesticity is perhaps most closely associated with the Victorian period, birthplace of “The Angel in the House.” Fraiman devotes her second chapter to a single novel of this period: Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton , continuing her focus...

... on the pleasures of melodrama, Lesjak reads &IS relation in the novel's well-known generic swerve as Mary rushes to save Jem at his trial. Melo- drama, Lesjak reminds us, dramatizes working class oppression, while vitiating working- class agency. She argues, however, that Mary Barton does not simply erase...

... the secret of his seduction of Eliza Wil- liams, who also happens to be the ward of Colonel Brandon, a relationship that Colonel Brandon keeps from his new friends at Barton cottage. The shaping influ- ence of these secrets on the relations among the main characters in Sense and Sen- sibility suggests...

... concerns itself with the different valences of working-class speech in the imaginations of bourgeois readers and authors such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Benjamin JAMES BUZARD I HEARING VOICES Disraeli, whose Mary Barton and Sybil (respectively) are placed...

... ELAINE FREEDGOOD, The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Nogel (New York: U of Chicago P, 2006), pp. 196, cloth, $29.00. Elaine Freedgood's pursuit of fugitive meanings in Victorian novels takes her through Jane Eyre, Mary Barton, Great Expectafions, and Middlemarch...

... of The Pickwick Papers's legal world. These practical concerns also inform his reading of Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848), a novel which harnesses developments in law through its heavy reliance on tropes of evidence and rhetoric imbued with legalese. RAVIT...

... ending explicitly displaces the illusion that women will find stability in marriage in favor of the material routines that in fact sustain bodies and communities. Mary Barton has often been rightly criticized for the politics of its ending, which imagines a cozy domesticity for its settler...

... up and bring the structure back to living human process. The formulation begins to take shape in Culture and Society , in conjunction with that book's only major engagement with novels. The chapter titled “The Industrial Novels” (which include Mary Barton , North and South , Hard Times...

... and Susan Barton the person who intervenes, like Granville Sharp, on behalf of the slave to bring his body before the lawex parte. She seeks to emancipate Friday and enable him to testify about his enslavement so that he can name the person who cut out his tongue and rendered him wordless, though...

...) in relation to Ranciere’s own writing. Elaine Freedgood’s ‘‘The Novelist and Her Poor’’ transposes the terms of Ran- cie`re’s analysis of Madame Bovary to the English context and discovers crucial differences between French and British realism. Most especially, what we see in Gaskell’s Mary Barton...

... from around 1850 that feature stereotypical inventors, in- cluding Geraldine Jewsbury's Marian Withers, Margaret Oliphant's John Drayton, Dinah Mulock's John Halifax, Gentleman, and Gaskell's own Mary Barton, but she neither dis- cusses these works nor explains her decision not to discuss them...

.... Similarly, in the chapter on Gaskell, Bigelow asserts that Mary Barton is not an "in- dustrial novel," as Raymond Williams had famously classified it, but rather a "radical and far-reaching" story about the very things that the "industrial novel" by definition omits: family, sexuality, and home...

... . “‘Carry[ing] a Yankee Girl to Glory’: Redefining Female Authorship in the Postbellum United States.” American Literature 75 . 1 ( 2003 ): 31 – 60 . St. Armand Barton Levi . “Paradise Deferred: The Image of Heaven in the Work of Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.” American...

... situates a diverse range of novels in relation to the debates concerning reform. More canonical novels such as Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge , Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and North and South , Charles Kingsley's Yeast and Alton Locke , and Benjamin Disraeli's Coningsby and Sybil...