The Provincial Fiction of Mitford, Gaskell and Eliot
Series: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 1 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399516099
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 black and white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, 1 black and white table 658
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Short description:
Considers the interrelated careers of three significant nineteenth-century writers who have never been extensively studied together
MoreLong description:
Although Elizabeth Gaskell was influenced by Mary Russell Mitford, and George Eliot by Gaskell, only a small number of scholars have considered the affinities and resemblances among all three writers of provincial fiction, and none have done so in depth. Establishing a chain of influence, this book considers Mitford, Gaskell, and Eliot’s interrelated careers, including the challenges they encountered in achieving distinction within the literary sphere, and the various pressures exerted on them by publishers, reviewers, and editors. It also analyses the career-enhancing possibilities afforded by different modes of publication—including periodicals, anthologies, the three-volume novel, and monthly and bimonthly instalments—as well as their concomitant limitations. In so doing, the book offers a reassessment of Mitford’s and Gaskell’s provincial fiction, which has been frequently derided as a ‘minor literature’. It also demonstrates the importance of their work to the development of Eliot’s liberalism in the age of high realism.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Introduction: The Politics of Provincial Fiction
1. Sketches of Rural Character: Mary Russell Mitford’s ‘Fugitive Pieces’
2. Sketches of Rural Scenery: Mitford’s Country Rambles
3. From Sketches to Papers: Gaskell’s Country Village
4. Landscape-Shaped Subjectivity: George Eliot’s ‘Mother Tongue’
5. A Wider Horizon: Portable Interiority and Provincial Life
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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