Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 9780754687481
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Taylor & Francis Group
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Subjects: Literature;

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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