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Faithful realism : Elizabeth Gaskell and Leo Tolstoy : a comparative study / Josie Billington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Billington, Josie, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865--Criticism and interpretation.
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Criticism and interpretation.
- Tolstoy, Leo.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.
- Comparative literature--English and Russian.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--Russian and English.
- Realism in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1. Helen and Wives and Daughters 17
- An Older World: Helen 17
- From Helen to Wives and Daughters 31
- 2. Reading Gaskell's (So-Called) "Homely Prose" 40
- Second Thoughts: Small Revisions 40
- The Characteristic Syntax 50
- Time and Memory 68
- 3. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Social Novelist? 75
- Mary Barton and North and South 75
- Sylvia's Lovers and Cousin Phillis 97
- 4. Gaskell and Tolstoy 109
- From The Cossacks to Anna Karenina 109
- Anna versus Levin 120
- England's Tolstoy
- George Eliot? or Elizabeth Gaskell? 131
- 5. On Life's Verge 141
- War and Peace: Beyond Life and Within Life 141
- Resurrection 156
- Conclusion: Gaskell and Tolstoy: Alternative Visions 172
- Appendix 1 Facsimile of passage from Wives and Daughters 182
- Appendix 2 Facsimile of passage from Sylvia's Lovers 188.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0838754589
- OCLC:
- 47927635
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