The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ludlow, Elizabeth.

Series:

Routledge Literature Companions Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

This volume addresses Gaskell's works, networks, contexts, and legacies. Contributors draw on ecocriticism, queer theory, and studies in emotion; paying particular attention to the intersections between race, class, gender and religion in Gaskell's fiction, as well as to the ongoing afterlife of her work.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Editors

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I: Texts

1. Correspondence, Sociability, and Elizabeth Gaskell

2. Elizabeth Gaskell's Professional Writing Life

3. 'Phantoms of the past': Domestic Terror and Family Secrets in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Manchester Marriage,' 'Lizzie Leigh' and A Dark Night's Work

4. Want, Famine, and Faith: Elizabeth Gaskell's Historical Short Fiction

5. Sympathy, Grief and Contagious Emotions in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton

6. Female Slapstick in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford: Bodies, Patriarchy, Agency

7. Women's Work and the Industrial Context in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fallen Woman Novel Ruth

8. The Social Lives of Books in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South

9. 'Flawed masterpiece': Biography, Reviews, and Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë

10. The Darwinian Landscape of Sylvia's Lovers: Elizabeth Gaskell's Novel of Struggle and Despair

11. Nurturing Science in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters

PART II: Themes

12. Architecture and the Built Environment: Heterogeneous Spaces and Semi-Permeable Thresholds in Elizabeth Gaskell's Writing

13. Getting '[be]wildered on the fells': Navigating Upland Ecologies in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cumbrian Tales

14. Queer Approaches to Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction

15. Elizabeth Gaskell and Religion: The Time of the Kingdom of God

16. Elizabeth Gaskell and Simplicity: The Aesthetics of Virtue and Class Prejudice

17. Elizabeth Gaskell and Material Culture: Mary Barton's Ragged Valentine

18. Women's Empowerment in Elizabeth Gaskell's Pre-Raphaelite Reconfigurations

19. Global Gaskell, Manchester, and the Abolitionist Struggle.

20. Race, Patriarchy, and Empire in Gaskell's Accounts of Systemic Injustice beyond 'Manchester Life'

21. Death, Dying, and the Rites of Mourning in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction

PART III: Legacies

22. Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Stage

23. Elizabeth Gaskell's Transatlantic Legacies: Margaret Hale's Daughters in Nineteenth-Century US Industrial Fiction

24. Elizabeth Gaskell's Cultural Reception: Illustration, Appropriation, and Fan Fiction

25. Transmedia Gaskell: Two Web Series Adaptations of North and South

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-084986-5

1-003-46209-X

1-04-084997-0

9781003462095

OCLC:

1578119311

Publisher Number:

CIPO000336487