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Title: Cranford
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Release Date: January, 1996 [EBook #394] [This
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The life of the English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) exemplifies the political and spiritual upheaval of the Reformation. The author of "Utopia," he was beheaded for opposing the...
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Sir Thomas More is--in the phrase associated with him since the early sixteenth century--a man for all seasons. World renowned as the author of Utopia (1516), he wrote humanist, polemical, and spiritu...
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Sir Thomas More's place in the history of rhetoric and logic is secure for two reasons. First, he enacted the "new learning" of the studia humanitatis, translating and transforming ancient literature ...
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In the following essay, Dodsworth interprets Cranford as a plot-driven novel concerned with feminine repression of sexuality in a male-dominated world.
Most readers seem to feel that the spirit of Cra...
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In the following essay, Croskery probes the charming, complex, and experimental narrative technique of Cranford, arguing that the work represents a significant development in nineteenth century sympat...
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In the following essay, Wright defends Cranford’s merits as a novel, arguing against its detractors who see it as Gaskell's “reminiscences thinly disguised as fiction.”
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In the following essay, Wolfe focuses on Miss Matty as the heroine of Cranford and a figure illustrating the novel's thematic progression from an initial female rejection of men to their gradua...
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In the following excerpt, Easson considers the sources and episodic structure of Cranford, Gaskell's skill in rendering emotion and character in the work, and the novel's enduring qualit...
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In the following essay, Griffith details the problematic generic unity and narrative technique of Cranford.
“That a book is a novel means anything or nothing; the practical question relates to ...
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In the following essay, Schor analyzes Cranford as an experimental woman's narrative concerned with the cultural factors of women as writers and readers.
Elizabeth Gaskell's third novel,...
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In the following essay, Carse investigates the character and interpretive role of Cranford's self-effacing narrator, Mary Smith.
Readers must wait until chapter twelve before the narrator of El...
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In the following excerpt, Allen studies Victorian anxieties concerning sexuality and traditional gender roles as they are represented in Cranford.
In the first place, if the town of Cranford is ȁ...
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In the following essay, Gavin discusses how the Cranford women create oral fictions while their male counterparts are merely readers and quoters.
My dear Mrs. Forrester, conjuring and witchcraft is a ...
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In the excerpt that follows, Dolin examines Gaskell's Cranford as a paradigm of the Victorian experience, specifically because it is organized as a collection of anecdotes centering around wome...
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In the following essay, Rosenthal considers Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford as a feminist utopia.
In her landmark essay, “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness,” Elaine Showalter expl...
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Cranford
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Critical Essay by Martin Dodsworth
