..., as I show through an analysis of Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield , Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford , and Charles Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop , reading them on their own terms allows us to perceive an alternative view of family and home to that produced by the novel in its hegemonic form. © 2009...

...), Mary Barton (especially in its nonmaternal women), Cranford, and especially in Gaskell’s own authorial ambition. For Garcha, Gaskell engages in a “creative sublimation” of these fantasies of repose and “market success” in the form of a distinctive style that is “a static, unchanging element...

... to complicate surface reading by demonstrating duration's adhesion to “the materiality of discourse—the number, length, and arrangement of printed words on a page,” which “serves as a surface that reflects the reader's duration back to them” (28). Take Gaskell's Cranford as an example: the “episodic...

.... Bigelow reads Cranford as a satire of old fashioned political economy. All attempts in the novel to make sense of the mys- teries of credit, finance, and empire rebound into metaphysical "inscrutability," a charge that Jevons also leveled at the discipline. Apart from matters of subjectivity...

... both foreign “intruders” and the aristocracy, as in Gaskell’s Cranford and Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone (in which the dark-skinned suspects serve as foils for the home-grown villain) and Little Dorrit (in which 138 NOVEL | SPRING 2012 Arthur Clennam’s dubious involvement...

..., Marjorie, I: 268 The Scarlet Letter, I: 284 Gaskell, Elizabeth Haywood, Eliza, II: 497 Cranford, II: 410 Hegel, G. W. F., I: 216, 311 Gates, Henry Louis Jr., II: 437, 467 The Phenomenology of Spirit, II: 511...

... because of its own liminal status as a carrier of both sentimental and fiscal value. He reads The Mill on the Floss, Cranford, and Margaret Oliphant’s Kirsteen (1890) briefly in the introduction to illustrate the Victorian concern with the “double life of property” (12). He reflects productively...