Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and - Elizabeth Gaskel

List of contents

Contents: General editor's preface; Introduction: Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Gaskell and servants in the 'good old days'; Servants and paternalism; 'Standing in distress between tragedy and comedy': servants in Edgeworth's novels of manners; 'Submitting to fate': servants in Gaskell's domestic fiction; 'True and loyal to the family': servants in Maria Edgeworth's Irish novels; 'Mutual duties': servants and labor relations in Gaskell's 'condition of England novels'; Conclusion: 'well done thou good and faithful servant'; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Julie Nash

Summary

The author 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.

Product details

• Authors: Nash, Julie Nash
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780815396987
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-9698-7
• No. of pages: 141
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Gothic, Romanticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form