...John Kucich Abstract Generic innovation has the potential to create strong new frameworks for political discourse. Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South hybridizes two nineteenth-century narrative genres—political melodrama and domestic fiction—to invite readerly involvement in the creation of new...

...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...

... with plotless forms and authorial success in a competitive market (especially in the Elizabeth Gaskell chapters). In an interesting and important way, Garcha makes the case that an attention to style and description is a return to the way the Victorians read writers like Charles Dickens and Wil- liam...

...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...

..., 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...

... at the end of its copyright term or at his death (177). Ultimately, how- ever, these oppositions remain too schematic and the parallels between them too strained to be wholly persuasive. Pettitt's next chapter, on Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot, again confronts the ab- sence of the inventor...

... how people behave in the market. Economics, then, is the result of a paradigm shift in the understanding of discourse and its relation to subjectivity. The two chapters on fiction read Dickens's Bleak House and Gaskell's novels as further instances of this "total reorientation of economic...

... divide, bridging the gap between the canonical and the noncanonical, the serious and the silly. Wagner takes a methodical, decade-by-decade approach to her topic, beginning with an analysis of Jane Austen’s Sanditon. Here, as in the account of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South that follows...

... relations of production that make cloth into a household object. 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...

...: 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...

... 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...

... distinct areas: nineteenth-century British real- ism (Elizabeth Gaskell and Thomas Hardy), contemporary postcolonial fiction (the Algerian novelist Tahar Djaout and the South African–Australian novelist J. M. Coetzee), and (in Panagia’s article) in relation to Ranciere’s own writing. Elaine...

... and in those of his writers, such as Eliza- beth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, is to house the “flux of time and chance.” Dickens makes his journals both the novel’s and the nation’s mobile home. An essay arguing that mobility is the key to Dickens could focus on the jour- nals’ recurring characters...

... conventions and the literary form of the bourgeois novel, which “did much to codify and to represent those conventions to subjects of a modernity increasingly and necessarily unsure of the rules of the game” (5). Puckett’s focus on novels with omniscient narration by Elizabeth Gaskell, William Thackeray...

... sentimental narratives in Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son and The Old Curiosity Shop and in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth. Here Kennedy uncovers a synergy between clinical observation and sentimentalism, where “the sentimental narrative usefully com- pensates for and supplements the inevitable failures...

... delicately traces how elderly characters function as critics of modernization and figures of nonlinear development in novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, and H. G. Wells before considering how the fragmentation of time in works by Virginia Woolf and early experiments in cinema help...

... experience. After an opening chapter that focuses our attention on mental states that call individual agency into question, Matus offers close readings of these states in works by four Victorian novelists—Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson. One cannot help...

... than any wells of empathy or recognition. In four chapters, Ward tests out four versions of this aesthetic effect. The first chapter explores the model of “the feedback loop” in the novels of Charlotte Yonge, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Margaret Oliphant (12). Chapter 2 considers “the information system...

...-Representation in Britain, 1832–1920 . London: Oxford UP, 1991 . Gaskell , Elizabeth . Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life . 1848. Ed. Stephen Gill. London: Penguin, 1970 . Gough , John . An Autobiography . Boston, 1850 . Hall , John Vine . The Author of “The Sinner’s Friend...

... 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...