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  1. Servants and paternalism in the works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Aldershot, England

    Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling... more

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    Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. Julie Nash shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of servants in short fiction and novels such as Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Belinda, and Helen and Gaskell's North and South and Cranford, among others

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780754687481; 0754687481
    Series: Nineteenth century
    Subjects: Household employees in literature; Social change in literature; Edgeworth, Maria; Household employees in literature; Social change in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Diener; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Edgeworth, Maria 1768-1849; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn 1810-1865; Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849); Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865); Edgeworth, Maria 1768-1849; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn 1810-1865; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn; Edgeworth, Maria
    Scope: Online Ressource (130 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-125) and index. - Print version record

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