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Mary Barton » Read Now
by Elizabeth Gaskell, Edgar Wright. 493 pgs.

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This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and...
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This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42, it paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England.
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The Columbia History of the British Novel ("Mary Barton" begins on p. 521) » Read Now
by John Bender, Deirdre David, John J. Richetti, Michael Seidel. 1066 pgs.

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What do Pamela, Shamela, and Evelina have in common? Who is Coningsby? Where is The Moonstone? When does one need A Room of One's Own? Why is it that Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit? And just how good is the British novel? These are just a few of the questions answered in The Columbia History of the...
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What do Pamela, Shamela, and Evelina have in common? Who is Coningsby? Where is The Moonstone? When does one need A Room of One's Own? Why is it that Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit? And just how good is the British novel? These are just a few of the questions answered in The Columbia History of the British Novel. John Richetti's comprehensive history takes us from the birth of the novel in the eighteenth century through its social and culture-conscious growing pains in the nineteenth century to its angst-ridden maturity in the twentieth century. Concise, cohesive, and complementary to any collection of must-read classics, The Columbia History of the British Novel challenges and enlightens us by examining canonical writers as well as women and postcolonial novelists. Discover the origins of the novel in the "scandalous" books of Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, and Delarivier Manley and follow its development through Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne against the backdrop of the novel's meteoric rise in the 1700s. Follow Frances Burney and the rise of the woman novelist, and the gothic novel as invented by Horace Walpole and perfected by Mary Shelley and Matthew Lewis. Remember remarkable reunions in Jane Austen; the bond between chivalry, Waverley, and Sir Walter Scott; the Brontes, Amelia Opie, Maria Edgeworth, and the tradition of Romantic women's fiction; Charles Dickens and the professionalization of literature; George Eliot and the novel of ideas; and Wilkie Collins and the sensation mania of the 1860s. Continue through the nineteenth century with the "Condition of England" novels of Benjamin Disraeli and Elizabeth Gaskell, Hardy's tales of class and sexualdifference, and Anglo-Indian perspectives on the empire from Rudyard Kipling and Philip Meadows Taylor. Enter the twentieth century and examine the modern novel with Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. Then trace the anti-
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Novel Possibilities: Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture (Chap. 9 "Mary Barton and the Community of Suffering") » Read Now
by Joseph W. Childers. 222 pgs.

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...Coningsby , Elizabeth Gaskells Mary Barton , and Charles Kingsley Alton...novels were fairly well received. Mary Barton "made" Gaskells career as a novelist...its work...
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Some Appointed Work to Do: Women and Vocation in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell (Chap. 3 "'The Hidden Power..in the Outward Appearance': Mary Barton") » Read Now
by Robin B. Colby. 120 pgs.

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Elizabeth Gaskell's work and life are being rediscovered against a backdrop of Victorian middle-class women's experience by many feminist scholars. Viewed in this century as conventional and conservative, Gaskell may instead be regarded as a radical for her time, because she challenged widely-held...
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Elizabeth Gaskell's work and life are being rediscovered against a backdrop of Victorian middle-class women's experience by many feminist scholars. Viewed in this century as conventional and conservative, Gaskell may instead be regarded as a radical for her time, because she challenged widely-held assumptions about the nature of women, their proper sphere, and their participation in the public realm. Examining the theme of work in Gaskell's novels, Colby presents this Victorian novelist as an effective advocate of change as she tried to create space for women within the world of work.
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The Politics of Dirt in Mary Barton and Ruth, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 » Read Now
by Natalka Freeland. 20 pgs.

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...asserts that Elizabeth Gaskells "Mary Barton lays down irrefutable concrete evidence...economy. (4.) Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life...
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"A Great Engine for Good": The Industry of Fiction in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and North and South, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Elizabeth Starr. 18 pgs.

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...of fiction in Elizabeth Gaskells Mary Barton and North and South. by Elizabeth...competitive enterprises. By the end of Mary Barton, the novels most public and...
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Glazed Expression: Mary Barton, Ghosts and Glass, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by David Ellison. 24 pgs.

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A Monstrous Reading of Mary Barton: Fiction as "Communitas," in College Literature » Read Now
by Thomas E. Recchio. 21 pgs.

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...texts, I read Elizabeth Gaskells Mary Barton ( 1848 ) for the first time. Economic...constructed from the narrative voice of Mary Barton and attributed to the...
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The Literary Detective: 100 Puzzles in Classic Fiction ("What Kind of Murderer Is John Barton?" begins on p. 78) » Read Now
by John Sutherland. 749 pgs.

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...This omnibus volume of Sutherland's collections of literary puzzles raises questions readers often ask. By addressing real world questions he brings literary criticism into...
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Novels of the Eighteen-Forties ("Mary Barton" begins on p. 202) » Read Now
by Kathleen Tillotson. 330 pgs.

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...157 Mary Barton 202...Gaskells first novel, Mary Barton 1848 ; Kingsleys...in A. B. Hopkins, Elizabeth Gaskell: Her Life and Work...were found surprising by many reviewers...