Women Authors - British - Literary Criticism, Society & Culture in Literature, Literary Movements - General & Miscellaneous, English Fiction & Prose Literature - 19th Century - Literary Criticism, Gender Identity
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Overview
In this close reading of her fiction, Terence Wright shows how Mrs Gaskell's poetic realism illuminates human, and particularly female, psychology, including the need for self-creating values if women are to retain their integrity in a society which seeks to label them as 'angels', 'witches' or 'martyrs'. Gaskell also deals with issues of concern to both sexes - the relation of the contingent and the absolute, the power of words, and the need to see a meaning in the shape of our lives. But above all Gaskell's voice speaks for the loving and suffering individual, and her trust that we have 'all one human heart'.Book Details
Published
January 1, 1995
Publisher
Basinstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press, 1995.
Pages
220
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780333614525