The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Matus, Jill L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521609267 ISBN 13: 9780521609265

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

In the last few decades Elizabeth Gaskell has become a figure of growing importance in the field of Victorian literary studies. She produced work of great variety and scope in the course of a highly successful writing career that lasted for about twenty years from the mid-1840s to her unexpected death in 1865. The essays in this Companion draw on recent advances in biographical and bibliographical studies of Gaskell and cover the range of her impressive and varied output as a writer of novels, biography, short stories, and letters. The volume, which features well-known scholars in the field of Gaskell studies, focuses throughout on her narrative versatility and her literary responses to the social, cultural, and intellectual transformations of her time. This Companion will be invaluable for students and scholars of Victorian literature, and includes a chronology and guide to further reading.

About this title

Book Description:

In the last few decades Elizabeth Gaskell has become a figure of growing importance in the field of Victorian literary studies. This volume, which features well-known scholars of Gaskell, focuses throughout on her narrative versatility and her literary responses to the social, cultural, and intellectual transformations of her time.

About the Author:

Jill L. Matus is Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521609267
• ISBN 13: 9780521609265
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238