Scheherezade in the Marketplace: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Novel

by Hilary M. Schor

In this book Schor places the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell in the context both of Victorian society and Victorian fiction. She argues that Gaskell--long viewed as a private, gentle woman who wrote only from a sense of outrage at Industrial England--was in fact intensely interested in publication and in assuming a public voice. Schor also examines how Gaskell's efforts to write about those denied a voice within Victorian society led her to an awareness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195073886
• ISBN13: 9780195073881
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"