| Description |
1 online resource (179 pages) |
| Contents |
The Split Subject Of Narration In Elizabeth Gaskell''s First-Person Fiction; Contents; Abbreviations and Short Titles; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theorizing Subjectivity: The Emergence of the ""I"" in Elizabeth Gaskell''s First-Person Fiction; Chapter One Elizabeth Gaskell''s First-Person Narratives in the Context of Victorian Culture and Society: Theoretical Perspectives on First-Person Narration; Chapter Two The Communal ""I/Eye"": Narrating the Individual and the Community in Cranford''s Heterotopic Utopia |
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Chapter Three The Voyeuristic I/Eye: Disavowal, Defence and Voyeurism in the Narration of Six Weeks at Heppenheim and Cousin PhillisChapter Four The Gothic I/Eye: The Ghostliness of Identity in The Poor Clare and The Grey Woman -- Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
The Split Subject of Narration in Elizabeth Gaskell's First-Person Fiction analyzes a number of Elizabeth Gaskell''s first-person works through a post-modern perspective. It attempts to explore the vicissitudes of Victorian Subjectivity by focusing on the ways in which E. Gaskell's realistic and Gothic fiction interrogate post-Romantic assumptions about the centrality and coherence of the narrating subject |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-156) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780739171639 |
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0739171631 |
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1322158827 |
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9781322158822 |
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