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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2240
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2240
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Smile of Discontent
Author: Eileen GilloolyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226294025
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Like sex, Eileen Gillooly argues, humor has long been viewed as a repressed feature of nineteenth-century femininity. However, in the works of writers such as Jane Austen, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, and Henry James, Gillooly finds an understated, wryly amusing perspective that differs subtly but significantly in rhetoric, affect, and politics from traditional forms of comic expression. Gillooly shows how such humor became, for mostly female writers at the time, an unobtrusive and prudent means of expressing discontent with a culture that was ideologically committed to restricting female agency and identity. If the aggression and emotional distance of irony and satire mark them as "masculine," then for Gillooly, the passivity, indirection, and sympathy of the humor she discusses render it "feminine." She goes on to disclose how the humorous tactics employed by writers from Burney to Wharton persist in the work of Barbara Pym, Anita Brookner, and Penelope Fitzgerald. The book won the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award given by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.
Cranford & Selected Short Stories
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellPublisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840224511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Contains six of her finest stories that have been selected to demonstrate the variety and accomplishment of her shorter fiction, and to trace the development of her art.
The Routledge History of Literature in English
Author: Ronald CarterPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1996
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Fiction, 1876-1983: Titles
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher: New York : Bowker
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
The Moorland Cottage
Author: Elizabeth GaskellPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775453987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Looking for an engaging and emotionally resonant read from a novelist who was inspired by the works of both Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte? Elizabeth Gaskell's 1850 short novel The Moorland Cottage offers up a unflinching slice of nineteenth-century family life, with a particular focus on family dynamics in an era where sons were openly favored.
On Cassette
Author: Words on Cassette
Author: Cranford
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 331
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